Our Lives Are “an Orchestrated Shuffle of Technology”
If you are anything like me, your soul let out a big “oooooof” while reading this: The Year Is 2063 and You Were Never Interesting.
But wait. You are 70 years old. You’re sitting in your home. Your grandchildren ask you what your 20s were like, and you honestly can’t tell them. You have no heirlooms; Temu doesn’t last. You never moved to Paris or quit the toxic job or booked the Spanish lesson. You were too nervous to get that tattoo, never went back to school. You were too awkward to go to the nude drawing class, you never did learn how to make dumplings. Your feed was so full of people living lives so full you never stopped to consider yours.
The great love affair of your life is… this. Sitting in the dark, your nose 6 inches from the screen. You have never separated, never taken a break. It started slowly, rockily. But by 25, it had its claws in you. By 30, it fills the dead spaces in your life. And you’ve never relented. It has consumed you wholly and the math has compounded. By this age, at 7 hours a day, 15 years of your life has been a screen.
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Oooof! But this did inspire me to make something — using a screen, and AI (d'oh!), to show what you could do with all that extra time...
Screen Time Life Calculator
europe is over-rated :-) just kidding (I lived in Europe for 6 years) but also stability and staying at home and never living abroad is under-rated :-) BOTH live outside of your country/do something fun/creative/different AND do something stable and long term wherever you want (doesn't have to be your home country)
The problem is that this is essentially how I earn a living and support my family. I'm constantly pulled to these screens because my family's income relies on me constantly staring at them, writing code, reviewing it, sending updates to team members, reading those updates, etc.
College was probably the best time of my life, and looking back, I strongly believe a big part of it was being able to take long breaks from screens.
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