{"id":128,"date":"2008-02-06T18:14:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T18:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/2008\/02\/06\/do-little-screens-lead-to-little-minds\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T18:14:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T18:14:53","slug":"do-little-screens-lead-to-little-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/2008\/02\/06\/do-little-screens-lead-to-little-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Do little screens lead to little minds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a very dear friend.\u00a0 <\/span>We are like brothers (and nearly the same age). \u00a0<\/span>A while back, my friend got a very significant position at one of the leading internet companies.\u00a0 <\/span>Not only was it a great personal opportunity for him but it also offered him the ability to do some real good in the world.\u00a0 <\/span>I was delighted for him and proud of him.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The new position has a lot of responsibility and also gave him a lot of public visibility.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I knew it would impact our ability to get together to talk.\u00a0 <\/span>We often had very long and deep conversations about life, the world and those that we loved.\u00a0 <\/span>But I thought we would be able to keep in communication via email and occasionally get together for a walk and a talk.\u00a0 <\/span>But this proved very difficult.\u00a0 <\/span>He rarely answered my emails and would not follow up on my suggestions to meet.\u00a0 <\/span>I finally wrote to him and said that while I cared a great deal for him and knew he was doing important work, I was finding it difficult to be his friend.\u00a0 <\/span>This motivated him to get his assistant to work hard at setting up a meeting for us (not easy since I travel a lot and spend half the week in my home in Sonoma when I am in the bay area and he travels all the time too).\u00a0 <\/span>Yesterday, we finally meet well after a year.<\/font>\u00a0<\/font>We talked about how superficial communication has become and that there is not much of a conversation about important matters.\u00a0 <\/span>During the conversation my friend explained to me why he did not answer my emails.\u00a0 <\/span>It seems that my friend had move to the small screen (I mean the really small screen of a cell phone).\u00a0 <\/span>He had a blackberry and also an iPhone.\u00a0 <\/span>He got hundreds of messages a day and as new messages came in the older ones dropped down on his screen and soon disappeared.\u00a0 <\/span>He had no good way to track them, and it was hard for him to reply anyway since his he has big fingers.\u00a0 <\/span>That is when I realized that many of my friends have made this transition to mobile communications.\u00a0 <\/span>While I do have a nice smart phone (HTC Touch), I still work from a desk with a large screen and when I travel I take a notebook with me.\u00a0 <\/span>Call me old fashion but I would hate to be writing this blog post on a blackberry.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>So the good news is we can be connected to all our friends all the time provided we scroll down. <\/font>\u00a0<\/font>\u00a0<\/font><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a very dear friend.\u00a0 We are like brothers (and nearly the same age). \u00a0A while back, my friend got a very significant position at one of the leading internet companies.\u00a0 Not only was it a great personal opportunity for him but it also offered him the ability to do some real good in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[536881,538800],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-life-in-the-last-third","category-the-post-pc-period"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2v2x-24","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/607219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}