What smartphones did for us ... and to us
Smartphones are awesome! Seriously, I'm a huge fan. If they weren't so fabulous, they would not be so dangerous, either.
Think about what life was before mobile phones. Back in the 1950s, you could be pursued by monsters or aliens and you could not call for help unless you found a phone booth or some isolated house with some creepy old lady who would force you to drink poison while you tried to figure out how to operate her phone...
Ah, if only people had had mobile phones, their lives would have been so much better... no more looking for or waiting at annoying phone booths. Thanks to mobile phones, you don't risk running into some creepy guy using phone booths as changing rooms...
Just look at this guy - he's literally beaming with joy because of his mobile phone. Look how he mocks the poor, backward phone booth users...
The idea some guy had in 1952 that we'd not be able to escape from telephones if they were mobile was just crazy talk:
Fortunately, some forward thinking individuals saw the true benefits of having mobile phones:
We would no longer need those clumsy car phones
What about if we could integrate a watch in those mobile phones so it could display the time?
If they know the time, our phones could also be used as alarm clocks...
So we would not need knockers anymore to get us out of bed:
Maybe we could integrate a really cool calculator on our mobile phones
Done:
If we give the smartphones graphics, we could play games, too - without the annoying family!
The experience got even much better:
Maybe a mobile phone could have a lot of memory... as much as a pile of perforated cards
Or even twice as much - what we manage to store on a hard disk
Wait, you think 10 whooping MB is not enough? What kind of ungrateful, greedy person are you?
If we just add a microphone and a speaker, the smartphone could record and play sounds and music, replacing these wonderful devices. Fiddling with the tape was so much fun!
We could even hook it up to the car stereo
We could maybe integrate a camera, then record and show images:
It would beat having to print photos:
Something tells me cats would be popular if we had cameras around all the time:
Maybe we could even use our mobile phones to play movies - those VHS cassettes are just too damn annoying:
Everything is much better now with smartphones
Well maybe not our social interactions...
We prefer all the info from our smartphones to human interactions - which might say more about humans interactions than we want to acknowledge...
Our kids just don't know anything about the real world anymore:
At least, if people had had smart phones, they could have recorded historical moments in real time, sparing us boring movies recreating the events...
The fact that we now carry mobile phones everywhere has been noted
We could use all this sophisticated communication technology to find compatible partners:
Brainwashing is a lot easier, with smartphones - one message fits most
Even the most intimate relations are vastly improved now.
We suddenly spend a lot more time in uncomfortable places, proving that our tolerance to pain and suffering has increased.
Smart people become even smarter with smartphones.
Smart phones finally removed our annoying individuality and make sure that everyone fits in.
Yes, I get it, so our cell phones lock us up in cells of solitary confinement:
Can it get any worse?
Well, there's this...
They already had this from the 1930s until 1945; now it's more insidious - your health "passport" can be "updated" remotely unlike the paper version:
It's almost as if they wanted us to lose our individuality, turn us into a number:
And then there's this government controlled electronic money - that wouldn't work without smartphones:
So here we are - we can't just dump the smartphones, they are way too useful. So what do we do about them?
Apart from buying the next model the second it is on the market...
Well, maybe we'll "upgrade" to the Apple Vision.
The isolation will be of much higher quality.