The un-Mobile Life
What I've enjoyed about MMM has been the ability to get out and speak with many people about the place of mobile technology. I think it is good to hear about and share what works, what doesn't, and what is possible (within reason).
However, there are those times when in speaking with people that I am no so much struck about what they do with mobile tech, but about what they do without it. For example, there are some people I know who will still only read news from a newspaper, even though what they are reading as already been told, reedited, republished, and commented on in several venues before it hits their hands from the newsstands. For these people, its the fact that the immediacy of mobile and Internet technology is in it that is attractive to them - not that they don't want to know.
I sort of see this mentality in some of the fellowships that I am in. Mobile devices, smartphones specifically, are seen as immediate communications devices. If you will, the information is meant to be short and consumed quickly. But when discussed in the context of Bibles and religion, the subject's depth seems to place mobiles out of the equation for many. This is ok, but I am one who wants to understand this a bit more, so I just ask:
Why do you think mobile technology (smartphones, laptops, electronic Bible software, etc.) is a precarious area for some people?
posted by Antoine @ 5/21/2008 10:00:00 AM
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3 Comments:
At first I would think it has to do with the lack of knowledge on using the technology.
Yet, as you wrote its "the immediacy" that could be why tech is not embraced. Yet, if used correctly it is a perfect tool for the generation x/y which it was created for ultimately.
I think that for some people it can be a distraction and that is why they don't embrace it. I am very interested in products like the pulse smartpen from lightscribe. The interface looks like normal pen and paper, but the user knows it is much more. It is a relational thing.
My 18 year old son will send a text message rather than make a phone call. My wife (age withheld) would rather make a phone call than send a text message. He has a MotoQ, she has a Palm 755P. Either device has the capability to do both call and text. I think it is an age issue (?) and what habits have been established.
If a newspaper stops publishing, then one has to find a different source of info. Also I think that people do not want to get involved too deep into the news. They just want to be told something so they can whine about it.
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