[IxDA Discuss] iPhones on Campus

[Geoff Barnes]

While the video has all the subtlety of an Old Navy TV ad from 2001
(obvious lure is the iPhone, not so much the university), the
potentialities revealed are riveting - and a bit disturbing.

Some of my disturbance comes from concern that, if students don't
have to look at a map and learn where a room or building is, perhaps
they never learn to "figure out" those types of things.  IE,
perhaps we encourage devolution by accepting such heavy reliance on a
replacement for brain-power and the mental calisthenics by which such
power is developed and nourished.

Am I just old and paranoid?  I don't think so.  Left unstimulated,
neural pathways go dark.  I think that we, as IxDs, have some
obligation to maintain engagement while providing ease.  I personally
don't want to help bring about a world akin to "Idiocracy."


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