Cell phones. What I have noticed.

[phaseshiftR1111]

I noticed something the other day... And I am going to look for it again tonight when I watch the Colorado Avalanche game. I been watching NHL every other night, just a few games that look fun. It's the only TV I watch other than sitcoms. I noticed something last night...

I was watching the crowd as the team was playing when they would zoom in on the coach. Almost everytime the camera zoomed in on the coach the people behind the coach were doing something on their cell phones. I didn't give this much thought at first but now everytime the camera zoomed in on the crowd almost 80% of people were doing something on their phone! I even saw a little kid with an Iphone while the game was playing! So I been watching this more and more... I was shocked to see how many people were diddling on their phones while I was driving. I even saw what looked like a 16 year old girl fly by past me about 30 MPH. I was at a stoplight and I noticed she blazed through the intersection. The guy next to me looked at me with huge eyes and I looked at him the same lol. When I drove ahead and parked next to the girl at the stoplight she was diddling on her phone. She almost took this guy out at the intersection and I am not even sure she realized.

I often go to a pool hall to play pool or a game of bowling. I notice almost everyone when they are sitting down are diddling on their phones too. I don't judge them for it because I love my phone... I got amazing technology on it especially for my weather stuff.

But what the hell... They aren't even taking pictures with the phones at the hockey games.

EMF really bothers me too so I keep mine off if I am not using it.

But I mean... does anybody just.... observe anymore?

[desert-rat]

I see a lot of people playing with there cell phones , even while driving .  You would think if some one payed for a game ticket they would turn off the phone and watch the game .  On e.m.f.  there is a cell tower ever few feet ( kind of ) all have transmitters working all the time . Most high mountains have some kind of radio gear on them .  There a whole bunch of t.v. satellites in orbit sending out signals .  You can take out your cell phone's battery , you will still be bathed in radio waves , from d.c. to light .( more or less )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.m.f.

[Projector4life]

I have even heard that there are people who talk on the cell phone even during sex.

[desert-rat]

If some one is on a cell phone during sex it would sound like the sex is perty boring .

[Szaxx]

Nah, they've Googled how to do it properly. 

[Volgerle]

If some one is on a cell phone during sex it would sound like the sex is perty boring .

They are telling s.o. that they just thought about them.  

Seriously, I noted this at many public places too. Maybe the majority is indeed "(d)evolving" into the HOMO TRANSHUMANIST now. In a few years they will all have implants and google glasses on their noses, and even be more detached from nature and the physical reality surrounding them. It might even become an annoyance. Any time you pass not looking at your modern smartphone or iPad or whatever is a waste for them.

ps. I still have a very cheap clamshell phone I bought 2 years ago via ebay, it's without any gimmicks. No cam, no internet, no cool apps, whatever. I could text of course, but I seldom do it. For me it's still a "phone" after all.  

Even worse: It's turned off for the most time.

This makes me an eremite in this society already I suppose.

I'm not constantly interfaced and connected. I'm not 'trendy'. I'm not on facebook or twitter. I'm on the internet of course (as you see) but I still prefer old-fashioned "e-mail" to any other written personal communication. I'm a lost case.

I love it.

[Stillwater]

Lol the cell phone stuff really gets me too... I can't even stand them anymore watching what they have done to social interaction. I don't even carry my phone with me when I leave the house. I will never spend more than ten dollars on one either, lol.

It sounds funny, but when I go outside, I am captivated by everything around me. The trees, the clouds, people walking by... it is a small kind of ecstasy to me. The thought of wanting to spend time looking at a tiny little screen punching miniscule buttons with my thumbs when I spend a large enough portion of my time indoors on a computer is inconceivable to me. My desktop handles anything a phone would do with far more capability and facility. If I am not home near a computer at the time whatever it is I would need electronics for is probably remarkably unimportant anyhow.

The idea of standing in a line once a year to get a ridiculously overpriced new phone that has 10% more capabilities than the one I did the same for last year is so absurd a concept I can't even relate to someone who would do that, lol.

[desert-rat]

I can remember when phones had a rotery dial , you could find a pay phone , put 5 cents in it and make a local call . No 9-1-1 , you dialed 0 and asked an operator for police or the fire dept.  My phone is just a phone , no camera , or inter net .  Mine is through cricket and I do have a u.s.b. modem for the inter net on my p.c.

[Lionheart]

 I saw this story about Malls in the 80's on Yahoo.com yesterday and it brought back memories.
 
http://yourmunky.com/malls-across-america-in-the-80s/

MJ and I opened our Christmas Kiosk on November 3rd and are now in the mall from 10 am-9pm every day. There are sooooooooooooo many people on their cellphones. You can actually watch as they walk into doors and sometimes other people that are walking because they are so distracted.

In the pictures from above, you see people talking TO EACH OTHER and can see that they are totally ENGAGED in their surroundings.

I have been looking at how new tech such as Cellphones and the constant use of them can help us to become more of a "Collective Conscious". The only rational conclusions I can come to, is that thinking and talking to others ALL THE TIME is somehow opening up a "new link" to each other as well.

MJ has a cellphone that we just buy minutes for when we need them. I don't use one period. I never really wanted to be that "available", lol. I like my quiet time! 

[desert-rat]

My first cell phone was a pre pay phone , I was forever buying air time cards .  With my current phone I pay a flat fee . Pre pay phones work great , if you dont use them too much .  On Lion hart's mall link on # 31 a kid is playing a video game  at an arcade , I think there still a few arcades around .  That mall looks a little like metro center hear in Phoenix .

[Stillwater]

I know what you mean Lionheart. I bring my phone when I perceive I am entering a situation where I may need to call for help, or when I need to communicate with others due to prolonged travel. Normally I don't wanna be reached by ads or a wrong caller every 5 hours or some random business call I can easily deal with when I get home.

Those mall shots are great, but that is just the 80's... the seeds were already planted. Imagine that same mall in the 40's or 50's... ( I know, most of them were built in the 70s-80s, but same concept.

[Rakkso]

I have a Smartphone that would dare say its just like a computer, especially since my laptop actually stopped working.
I installed a call blocker app, so i dont get annoyed by unknown calls, and lots of other cool stuff. i carry it with me all the time, only check snd responds messages at night. and use it mostly to read this forum anytime snywhere, as long as i dont have to do something at that moment or be surrounded by people or even just a person. i think its bad education to pay attetion to your phone instead of the one(s) in front of you.
im saying this cuz i dont think this kind of technology its bad, but only because my parents raised my that way, the whole fault lies in the parents and the society that do not promove this kind of values any more.
there is a certain degree of responsability in everything you do, and how you do it, kids just arent thought that any more.

[Astralzombie]

Bruce Lipton has a theory that when a species has reached the apex of their individual evolution the next step is for them to develop a collective or hive consciousness. He says that technology ,i.e, computers and cellphones are an example of how we are evolving right now.

For the first time in human history (as far as we are allowed to know anyhow ), an idea can theoretically spread to all parts of the world in less than an hour.

For the time being at least, I see it doing the opposite. People are losing their person skills and some of the younger generation haven't even developed any social skills to lose in the first place.

Time will tell.

[desert-rat]

On cell phones , there basically a computer controlled 2 way radio , a computer in the phone talking to a computer in a tower . The tower is the center of a cell . I remember this system being described in an electronics mag in the mid 70s . At that time I thought to my self , they cant make this work . It did take a few improvements in electronics to make cell phones work . 

[CFTraveler]

Bruce Lipton has a theory that when a species has reached the apex of their individual evolution the next step is for them to develop a collective or hive consciousness. He says that technology ,i.e, computers and cellphones are an example of how we are evolving right now.

For the first time in human history (as far as we are allowed to know anyhow ), an idea can theoretically spread to all parts of the world in less than an hour.

For the time being at least, I see it doing the opposite. People are losing their person skills and some of the younger generation haven't even developed any social skills to lose in the first place.

Time will tell.

I agree.

[Justintime]

Hello Astral Pulse,

I'm happy to make my first post here at this site that gas entertained me for hundreds of hours recently and has really captivated my mind and has helped to create a new paradigm for me.

I have been teaching 6th grade for eight years now and feel like this post's topic is something I've given some thought to and have heard both sides of the argument. For starters our young people's social skills have not or are not currently deteriorating. As part of my job I have to help supervise morning duty for twenty minutes every work day. I observe 600 literally 600 6th graders interacting with one another. Nothings changed in the 21 years since I've left. Still the same social mores only using your smart phone is part of it. These kids aren't substituting social interaction for using their smart phone they are doing both. It's really quite something too watch.

As far as observing nature and being an observer I think we all need to realize that most people wouldn't look at Nature the same way most of us would anyways smart phones or no smart phones. The Emerson's and Thoreau's are one in a thousand and those who can simply appreciate nature maybe 1 and 50. And I think it's probably always been this way.

Lastly, driving and being 16, yikes. Phones don't help the matter but I could never concentrate on the road for long as a teenager, I think it's just attention span and priorities at that age. It's so hard to understand that our car can be a weapon of mass destruction so to speak.