http://backofthebook.ca/2009/12/03/not-for-mephone/1549/ Politics, tech, media, culture and more, from a Canadian point-of-view Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:16:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://backofthebook.ca/2009/12/03/not-for-mephone/1549/showthread/comment-page-1/#comment-586 COPAC Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:55:18 +0000 http://backofthebook.ca/?p=1549#comment-586 You are not alone. There are still a few of us who have given in to neither to the iPhone, nor to any of the other of the smart phone ilk. We are COPAC (Cranky Old People Against Change). We believe that internet was a good thing up to and including the invention of the web (web ONE mind you, none of this web two social networking crap) and email. What's so gall darned important that it has to be sent in a text rather than an email? Whatever ever happened to touch typing on a proper keyboard, none of this squinting at some microkeyboard which in the iPhone's case isn't even real and giving the thumbs the sort of workout they never evolved to do? Mark my words, soon a whole generation will lose the use of their thumbs, one day, BAM, they'll all stop working from overwork. And what good is a human being without opposable thumbs, one of the defining aspects of the species? That's when COPAC takes over. You are not alone. There are still a few of us who have given in to neither to the iPhone, nor to any of the other of the smart phone ilk. We are COPAC (Cranky Old People Against Change). We believe that internet was a good thing up to and including the invention of the web (web ONE mind you, none of this web two social networking crap) and email. What’s so gall darned important that it has to be sent in a text rather than an email? Whatever ever happened to touch typing on a proper keyboard, none of this squinting at some microkeyboard which in the iPhone’s case isn’t even real and giving the thumbs the sort of workout they never evolved to do? Mark my words, soon a whole generation will lose the use of their thumbs, one day, BAM, they’ll all stop working from overwork. And what good is a human being without opposable thumbs, one of the defining aspects of the species? That’s when COPAC takes over.

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