Until I bought a voice-enabled one, I couldn’t figure out what the fuss about smart watches was. Sure, activity trackers, that’s a whole thing. I don’t do it, but I get it. Maybe it’s that. In recent years, expensive watches has supplanted other expensive stuff with low daily utility for our conspicuous consumption status. Artisanal… Continue reading Watches and Social Convention
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Theory of Mind
One morning recently, I was writing to a friend in academia who was teasing me about his smart speaker not responding as he’d liked. Going on a tangent, I was suggesting that it might not be long that people would be taking his classes so they could have a good background for getting into the… Continue reading Theory of Mind