Smartphones are just tools, but they are designed to give us access to media. Media is wonderful and empowering, but when it's trivial and we spend most of our free time accessing it (watching TV, reading magazines or whatever), we're conditioned into thinking that what's important is not Here, but There. That's a drag on focused, disciplined use of time. And I believe it ultimately degrades the sense of self of the user. Unless they're dumb!

Have you noticed that most good group conversations deteriorate once a dumb/assertive person gets the idea to force everyone into watching an internet video? Then of course, the next most dumb/assertive person makes everyone watch another video.... At least ads before videos are putting a slight kibosh on this.

I always thought this was because my mother's Japanese...

Always felt like other fast food chains make unhealthy food their "thing," meanwhile, McDonalds gets stuck putting pictures of people doing healthy lifestyle things on all their bags.

What prejudice. Or self-hate, or whatever.

Hope these tools of yours help you sort the aggressors fast enough.

Does your partner make you hang out with too many dumb folks?

Remember that great "The Way Things Work" book with all the nice illustrations and cute wooly mammoths?

Live-action TV series.

Well then let's get him!

Is this a backwards opportunity taken for asserting that he is one of the Fathers of the Internet?

People always complain that food at weddings is really bland. Of course, you don't want to start with a high baseline of seasoning when cooking for a crowd. And then again, maybe most catering halls just really suck.

That's totally what I was thinking!

Well shit, I'm going to be a flying car pizza guy when I grow up.

Geography will be made irrelevant by virtual spaces before the technology to create flying cars as we imagine them occurs. I imagine that one day there will be tiny lil fusion reactors (like Iron Man) that would power such vehicles, but it'll be for some novel real world pleasure, and will have no impact on "commutes" or whatever.

Anybody remember the Ninja Turtles villain, whatwashisname, Baxter something? He had these robot called Mousers that would attack the Turtles.

Ha, I guess games would be enough.

If we're going to be wearing glasses anyway, why isn't everyone going for 3d with headset displays? Everyone's going to want all kinds of augmented reality stuff anyway. Games and porn alone could get it paid for.

Or is there something totally stupid about putting a screen next to each eyeball that I don't know about?

Come on, there are plenty of successful species that don't love their babies. Okay, no successful species that is susceptible to marketing.