I don't understand this at all. You read hn and yet you think the world looks alien because most people small hand held computers around with them??? To be honest this sounds like some attention seeking gesture, so people ask you about your "radical" smartphone-free lifestyle, especially since you prefixed your comment with "not that anyone cares".
there's nothing alien about using a smartphone. it's a natural progression and people are avid consumers of entertainment, so when it goes hand held it's a no brainer that it will be popular. Not to mention all the useful things they do.
you're not without social media, you're commenting on hn?
>you think the world looks alien because most people small hand held computers around with them???
Alien means different, not magic. This world is alien to the world of 2005, and most of that quality is a result of ubiquitous smartphones. The issues that we are grappling with now around smartphones were only the concern of science-fiction authors 10 years ago. I'm not sure how that could be controversial.
>prefixed your comment with "not that anyone cares".
That's called humility.
>you're not without social media, you're commenting on hn?
Does sending a letter count then?
Sorry for commenting, it's just that they only give me one downvote.
there's nothing alien about using a smartphone. it's a natural progression and people are avid consumers of entertainment, so when it goes hand held it's a no brainer that it will be popular. Not to mention all the useful things they do.
you're not without social media, you're commenting on hn?