Largely these are things I just don't care about. Privacy I do care about, I think they are confused if they think choosing to reveal stuff on facebook is the same as being surveiled by the government though - changing models and expectations of privacy are a big social change though.
My Dad thinks loosing the ability to remember pointless facts is important. I don't. I think it's *excellent* that I can look up the pointless facts when I need them and use my brain for the *important* things that *aren't* easy to search up - such as general methods for solving problems.
I rather like the fact that, several decades after it fell out of fashion, we have returned to the pocket-watch. In fact, I kind of want to put a mobile phone in an ornate casing and attach it to my jacket by a silver chain.
28) Respect for doctors and other professionals
Room for improvement here. I look forward to the day when the power of the Internet compels crap doctors to give up medicine and become carpet salespeople instead.
"you don't have to wade though a shop of drunks and ne'er-do-wells" - has this middle class snob ever been to a betting shop? Who says "ne'er-do-well" in the Internet Age(TM) anyway?
Crap "50 things" articles written by illiterates who couldn't even get the Sunday Times editor to give them a job. I don't miss those at all. BECAUSE THE TUBES ARE FULL OF THEM!
They've not mentioned the phone box, being killed by mobile phones. Not only are there fewer of them, but BT's maintenance standards seem to be slipping -- two of the five or so I tried to use on holiday were broken in some way.
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Date: 2009-09-04 11:53 am (UTC)"one of the most dreaded rights of passage for teenage boys"
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Date: 2009-09-04 12:22 pm (UTC)My Dad thinks loosing the ability to remember pointless facts is important. I don't. I think it's *excellent* that I can look up the pointless facts when I need them and use my brain for the *important* things that *aren't* easy to search up - such as general methods for solving problems.
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Date: 2009-09-04 12:23 pm (UTC)"Twitter/Facebook/fad-du-jour will destroy our society!"
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Date: 2009-09-04 12:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-04 12:49 pm (UTC)I rather like the fact that, several decades after it fell out of fashion, we have returned to the pocket-watch. In fact, I kind of want to put a mobile phone in an ornate casing and attach it to my jacket by a silver chain.
28) Respect for doctors and other professionals
Room for improvement here. I look forward to the day when the power of the Internet compels crap doctors to give up medicine and become carpet salespeople instead.
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Date: 2009-09-04 01:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-04 02:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-04 02:51 pm (UTC)Most: Privacy.
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Date: 2009-09-04 04:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-04 06:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-08 12:56 pm (UTC)