Yes, it is almost there isn't it ;) We are already brainwashed, programmed controlled. People want to be free while they sit and do exactly what they have been taught to do.
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Yes, it is almost there isn't it ;) We are already brainwashed, programmed controlled. People want to be free while they sit and do exactly what they have been taught to do.
When mobile phones became popular around the Millenium turn I was lucky to be in the Netherlands, in Utrecht particularly. There were two higher level bistros who had a no mobile phone policy, with laminated signs against the wall. Each time a phone was heard ringing the whole waiting staff would jump up and try to locate the phone, it was pretty fun to see. For most waiters it was their guilty pleasure of the day.
While it would most definitely cause a ruckus on social media - what doesn't nowadays - just like there's always more new coffee shops opening without WiFi, I predict that we will ever more find such locals again. Because they want people to have a nice and social time, not a time dictated by a gadget. It may even be socially owned guesthouses (pubs with shared ownership by a large base of their patrons).
If I remember Utrecht had the first UBI test too.
I think it will get to a point where at least groups of friends will outlaw phones. I don't like meeting some friends anymore as they are always on a phone. Soon it might be like smoking. Once it was 'connecting people' but now the smokers are ostracised.