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Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good:
Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol.
[...] Life for anyone but the very rich — the physical experience of learning, living and dying — is increasingly mediated by screens.
Not only are screens themselves cheap to make, but they also make things cheaper. Any place that can fit a screen in (classrooms, hospitals, airports, restaurants) can cut costs. And any activity that can happen on a screen becomes cheaper. The texture of life, the tactile experience, is becoming smooth glass.
The rich do not live like this. The rich have grown afraid of screens. They want their children to play with blocks, and tech-free private schools are booming. Humans are more expensive, and rich people are willing and able to pay for them. Conspicuous human interaction — living without a phone for a day, quitting social networks and not answering email — has become a status symbol.
All of this has led to a curious new reality: Human contact is becoming a luxury good.
As more screens appear in the lives of the poor, screens are disappearing from the lives of the rich. The richer you are, the more you spend to be offscreen.
I remember when the tag line for AT&T was Reach out and touch someone and it was portrayed as a good thing.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 26 2019, @04:42PM (3 children)
Kids need to 'experience' things LIVE: they need to fall down and hurt themselves, as in fall off the monkey bars and maybe break an arm. They then learn there are limitations to what they can do and can't do, etc.
they learn about gravity, physics.
I am not on Facebook and don't miss anything about it (i was on briefly to keep up with what my daughter was doing, but found FB is SHITE and useless crap and now don't miss it AT ALL).
I am not on twitter... don't care.
Not on FriendFace or anything else..... AND DON'T MISS IT.
I think we need to get back to kids playing, getting hurt, and learning about real life.
Right now, where i live anyways, kids basically stand around or play ball with very lightweight balls so no one gets hurt: HOLY SHIT, BATMAN!
Kids are hyper and ADD because they're not allowed to release energy during recess (Hell. we didn't STOP running and hurting ourselves when we were kids).
And in the class room, kids need to have the ability to be taught and when they KNOW, learn by themselves: ie, teachers who can help, or when they don't need help, students can further their own education.
If kids need it, the teacher helps.
If kids don't need it, they learn on their own: i used to love these SRA(?) (don't know what it stands for) boxes we had in the class. When i was done with what the teacher was teaching, i could learn on my own.
Bleh.... classes being replaced with software: i bet in the 'BETTER FUNDED RICH KID SCHOOLS' they aren't being taught with software: if 'lower education' was funded as well as 'rich kid' education, you wouldn't need software.
But tax the rich... you gotta be kidding.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday March 26 2019, @07:49PM
Like pick and sort a huge variety of crops, assemble products designed in various US cities, such as Cupertino, pick items in warehouses for shipment to eager consumers, all the while surrounded by many others doing similar items. When they grow up, they'll even be able to assist in bottling recreational beverages [youtube.com].
Some of these places also forbid having technology, like cell phones with you! They say it's for security, but we all know it's most likely for the individuals' mental and social health. So it's not just for the rich and privileged.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday March 26 2019, @08:25PM
That's a lovely bunch of wishes, put those in one hand....
Core curriculum, standardized tests, etc. all BEG to be unified into a single server of all educational material and put on repeat-play for the 180 days of the year that the schools are legally obligated to keep your kids off the streets for 6 hours per day. Education for the betterment of the students? I'll go with the 80/20 rule above on that: 80% of the time it's anything but - there are probably 1/5 people in the educational system who both really care, and really do something about it, the rest are there for the paycheck - even if 4/5 of the 4/5 have their "heart in the right place" they almost never do anything to make a real difference in any student's life, much less all of the ones they have responsibility for.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:17PM
Oh, the SRA cards. My teacher always wanted me to do those, and I kept refusing. Mostly because she was pushing me to it.
I always thought it stood for Supplemental Reading Assignment, but it apparently is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Research_Associates [wikipedia.org]