Why does Substack, like everyone else, want me to put an App on my phone?
I don't want my whole life to be on my damn phone!
No. I don’t want my whole life on my damn phone. I use my phone only for conversations and text messages, not for email or any other internety thing. I use my computer, with its nice big screen for emails and all internety stuff. I don’t put any Apps on my phone. If Substack insists on Apps on phone - well, I don’t need Substack all that badly.
I travel around all the time - on trams, trains, buses, taxis. I have a driver’s licence, but no car. I see everybody else glued to their phones. But I watch the scenery, the gardens, the passing parade. Because I don’t want to live on my bloody phone. I want to live in the real world. I do my internety stuff, quietly, at home on my computer.
And - I have twice left my phone on the train, and lost it forever. Too bad, the finders wouldn’t get much from it. And I haven’t dropped the phone into the toilet, or accidentally smashed it - but I might, one day. Too bad. All the stuff that I really need is on my computer, not connected to my phone.
Who is it that wants me to live on my phone? Is it Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Jensen Huang? Those are a few of the names flung around- of the technobillionaires, who squabble amongst themselves about which one is to rue the world and live forever.
Why does everybody conform, have to do the same thing? It’s a worrying trend, as every little commuter stays glued to their phone. Almost a sad little reflection of the world’s political leaders, who all conform to the system - as they bow and scrape before that charlatan, Trump.
Amen