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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2960082, member: 27832&quot;]LOL.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought my first personal computer in <b>1979</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was one of the first people in my neighborhood to get broadband, almost 20 years ago. I got my first digital camera around the same time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m driving a hybrid car with assisted braking, collision avoidance, parking assist, and even lane-holding. It&#039;s to tide me over this awkward stage before fully autonomous cars are legal and practical.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have a presence on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter. It&#039;s not because I&#039;m &quot;unwilling to modernize&quot;; it&#039;s because I already don&#039;t have enough attention to devote to everything in my life, and I&#039;m resisting apps whose <i>clearly stated business goal</i> is to claim and monetize ever more of my attention.</p><p><br /></p><p>No, I&#039;m not unwilling to modernize. But today&#039;s social media aren&#039;t &quot;modern&quot;; they&#039;re at the &quot;steam engines belching coal dust into the sky&quot; stage of attention management. They&#039;re intent on consuming everything, because the costs of attention mismanagement don&#039;t fall back on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a couple of decades, when &quot;attention conservationism&quot; is a thing, you might be seeing my name more in public.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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