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Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

835 points · 738 comments · barry-cotter

  1. zkmon · · focus · HN ↗
    Blame the screens. Screens are blackholes that suck up your time, attention, awareness and senses.

    Screens are evil. They wake up the dead past as if it's alive and happening now. It became so much the norm, that people are afraid to face the real world, real people, real talking. "Dinner party? OMG, real people with real faces that force us to talk to them? Noway sir".

    Screens disconnected people from real world, from each other. I was trying a VR headset the other days and immediately threw it away, as it shut off my visual and audio senses completely.

    1. darepublic · · focus · HN ↗
      I agree with you general sentiment but how did you end up in a situation where you feel this way but also wanted to try a VR headset but then also decided to throw it away immediately after trying it seemingly surprised by what the experience was.
      1. layer8 · · focus · HN ↗
        He might have started feeling that way only after trying the VR headset.
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