What percentage of your mental space is occupied by this or that aspect of your life, this or that product?
It may be surprising to observe this.
Let’s take the example of the telephone and its associated functions, those to which this terminal gives existence,
What proportion of psychic time is allocated to it ?
What size is the telephone space-time pie chart ?
Colossal, most often.
I remove it—telephone fasting, digital fasting.
I hear it calling me, screaming, howling with hunger.
It shows me all the horror, all the perfidy of its features, the assaults, spasms, and final tremors that accompany its disappearance.
This telephone space-time is emptied of its occupant.
Let’s keep it available.
Let’s maintain availability.
Let’s not leave the premises to some insistent occupant.
Wealth is in availability,
Not in activities

I must admit, I sometimes wonder: « What if I just abandoned all the tech stuff…? »
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The good news is you can try it for a while without having to suffer long term consequences of a radical choice.
Taste and see.
I can only imagine how much cognitive sovereignty we shall be able to reclaim.
This invasion has to stop.
Not even an invasion… A mere surrender of the will
One little coward gap in our guard
And it all got in.
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But hey,
How would we talk then?
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I don’t do pigeons.
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Two tin cans and a length of string?
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Tried this a hundred times when I was a kid… Unreliable once we leave the theoretical field.
Logistically challenging as well.
Remote mind reading could be the best alternative.
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Somewhat prone to error and subjective intrusion of one’s own thoughts, even more so than verbal communication…
Do telegrams (as opposed to Telegram) still exist?
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As long as a major solar eruption does not burn all infrastructures…
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If it does, it won’t much matter what tech we are using. Quill pen and messenger boy?
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That would imply that the messages we share are worth sending someone through the wilderness of the northern sea.
For the sake of a continuity in our discussion it might be a safer bet to keep some rudimentary form of technology…
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Smoke signals?
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No ponctuation system. Does not allow subtlety.
Limited to emergency situations.
(I’m trying to start a fire my living room as I read this…blocking smoke passage, following a f.r.a.n.c.k. pattern.
Which is useless when you already know my name.
Well, that was a test. Do you copy?
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I’m trying to pluck out a tune on my Mandolin, so I’ll respond in lost chords and mis-played notes…
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