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1. zkmon · 1790682862 · 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. p_j_w · 1790696490 · focus · HN ↗

      This has been going on since at least the mid 1970s if the graphs in the article are anything to go by. How will you blame the screens then?

      1. seizethecheese · 1790697066 · focus · HN ↗

         To play devils advocate screens could start with color television.

         1. zero_shift · 1790725014 · focus · HN ↗

            Television and also the VCR. The cassette recorder revolutionised TV because you could start watching programmes independently of your friends
      2. wouterjanl · 1790697140 · focus · HN ↗

         I guess there was television then?
      3. mitchdoogle · 1790829845 · focus · HN ↗

         TV screens. TVs went from playing a few over the air channels in the 50s and 60s, and then the 70s, 80s brought cable TV and VCRs, and Video Games. 90s brought on DVR, DVDs

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