A friend of mine has no smartphone (still an old Nokia mobile) and thus has no access to a train ticket in his state in Germany. There is no way of a non-digital ticket. That’s so f’ed up
One of my favourite books is Hamlet’s Blackberry by William Powers.
“The essential idea is simple: to lead happy, productive lives in a connected world, we need to master the art of disconnecting.”
Yeah. Restaurant I was in about a month ago. You need a phone to order, to pay, and to see the menu.
You can almost imagine the conversation
Boss: so we will move everything to app based
Underling: but what about people without cellphones?
Boss: people without cellphones have no money.
Yeah… I commented to my friend “and a smartphone is a basic human right, right?” When talking about this. Well, internet is not, either so yeah, your existence is extra gimped or based on touching ground base if you’re homeless, phoneless and internet planless.
I can’t love a modern life without following of what’s going on in the world. Internet is the only thing that allows us to do this efficiently.
