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Meet the Family That Shuns Technologies Introduced After 1986

51 点作者 trysomething超过 11 年前

13 条评论

chasing超过 11 年前
Person 1: &quot;I have a great idea! Instead of thinking critically about how we use technology and its impact on our lives -- good and bad -- let&#x27;s just make some arbitrary restriction that&#x27;ll actually probably retard our kids in this modern technological world more than it&#x27;ll help them. Because, as we know, the best way to get children to do anything safely -- from driving to drugs to sex, or all three at once -- is to give them absolutely no preparation or understanding of these things in advance. (Although, to be frank, the mullet thing probably makes sex less of an issue until Junior gets his first used IROC-Z when he&#x27;s 31.)&quot;<p>Person 2: &quot;I have an ever better idea! I&#x27;ll write a short article about it as if you&#x27;re making some big statement about our over-reliance upon technology that in no way considers what you&#x27;re actually doing in a thoughtful way! Like how you&#x27;re losing work which translates to less money and might impact your children&#x27;s abilities to attend institutes of higher learning, or in a bad economy could cause you to lose your home or worse! Or how you might be negatively impacting them socially! Not to mention making them less able to operate in a global economy which, like it or not, basically requires low-level understanding of modern technology! Because, y&#x27;know, iPads are all, like, annoying and stuff.&quot;<p>Person 1: &quot;Gnarly!&quot;<p>[Fin.]
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eksith超过 11 年前
I&#x27;m reminded of those 60&#x27;s futuristic reels of what the 80&#x27;s would be like.<p>Slight tangent:<p>&quot;The 1950&#x27;s was the last time in our history people had any taste in clothing&quot; - Patton Oswalt.<p>In an ideal world, we&#x27;ll all dress in 50&#x27;s - early 60&#x27;s fashion. Computers won&#x27;t look, sound or even interact with us like computers I.E. they should be invisible and only have their presence known when we have a guest at the door or an appointment. For this, they should remind us with the soothing voice of HAL9000.<p>Facebook shouldn&#x27;t exist and news came in the daily papers made of e-ink. My chair would still be made of wood. In fact, &quot;Things&quot; would mostly be made of wood (new-growth renewable) and maybe a bit of steel for extra support. Concrete would also look like timbers.<p>At the start of the day, HAL will wake you out of your bed in your 16&quot; x 20&quot; rustic cabin in the middle of a forest and start the coffee machine with a carefully measured Arabica with a water temp at exactly 109C all powered by solar + wind. You put on your bedroom slippers made of recycled materials and head to pick up the paper (same one as yesterday, but now with today&#x27;s news) and it <i>will actually contain bloody NEWS, not some random malarkey dipped in mediocrity</i>. You sip your coffee with your e-ink paper as you watch snow fall outside (it&#x27;s September, but the windows will perfectly display the outside in winter, because.... well, just because).<p>... OK, I&#x27;m done.<p>Edit: I initially wrote August. Forgot, it&#x27;s already September.
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ars超过 11 年前
&gt; And he&#x27;s had trouble getting more work, as well, because so many workplaces now only accept job applications online.<p>There is an intelligent limiting of technology for a purpose, and there is brainless dogma.<p>They started with the first, and ended with the second.
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GuiA超过 11 年前
Nothing new to see here, we&#x27;ve seen those experiments countless times before.<p>If one of them falls sick, they&#x27;ll be glad for 2013 medical practices and technology.
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mindstab超过 11 年前
Seems kind of harsh on the kids. Sure they don&#x27;t need tech to play and won&#x27;t notice it immediately but tech proficiency is so important and this day and age and he&#x27;s setting his kids back with this, I want to say selfish, project.
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Yver超过 11 年前
So to sum it up: the dad uses a computer at work and drives a 2010 car, but his son wears a mullet and can&#x27;t have video games. Why are they (minus dad) living like it&#x27;s &#x27;86 again?<p>&gt; Earlier this year, Blair says, he was hanging out outside the house, and he asked his 5-year-old son Trey to join him. Trey refused. He was too busy with his iPad.<p>Oh, that explains it.
unsignedint超过 11 年前
The biggest risk of this kind of lifestyle is when parents get older they will be disconnected from their kids. (Kids will do just fine... all they need is some inevitable exposures to technology, albeit with some steeper learning curve...)<p>I actually know someone (not really my own contact directly) with similar lifestyle and what I have been observing is that she is so isolated from information inlet that she started developing high sense of skepticism as with current standard of technololgy adoptations by her peers, she&#x27;d be often last person to know everything. (I guess this also gives plenty of time to think about things, and every little things becomes very very big deal for her, but then that might be just her personality. She does show some hostility to people who are &quot;informed&quot; and they tend to become a target of complaints for just about anything...)
D9u超过 11 年前
We got cable in my rural community in the late 1970&#x27;s so I don&#x27;t see why they&#x27;ve shunned cable while claiming that they won&#x27;t use technology from 1986 and later...<p>Looking back, I wish that we&#x27;d had the internet when I was growing up, as well as personal computers, for I would like to think that my life would have turned out differently had I been exposed to programming while still in secondary school rather than during my mid twenties.<p>I kick myself for not joining the Air Force, because my test scores were high, but in my youthful indiscretion I chose the Army because it seemed more &quot;manly.&quot; (hindsight is 20&#x2F;20)
timmyelliot超过 11 年前
I guess that means watching a lot of ALF reruns.
tudorconstantin超过 11 年前
Those kids are really lucky that their parents werent born in 1750, because the kids should already go to work.
jhonovich超过 11 年前
Has the Atlantic ever heard of the Amish?
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Aloha超过 11 年前
I have a dumb terminal, I figured out one day - that on that serial terminal, I could do about 80% of what I normally do with a computer with it. Next step is to figure out the oldest hardware to use with it, that would still let me hit that 80% target.
danso超过 11 年前
I didn&#x27;t watch the video, but I read the original newspaper article about this family...and newspapers should be somewhat troubled that the family didn&#x27;t talk about how they were going to re-subscribe to the newspaper in order to keep informed...Maybe they never liked newspapers to begin with, or maybe they just see that newspapers -- in print form -- are far less informative and useful than they were 25 years ago.
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