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Don’t you want to be touched at different locations?
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I always thought — because I listened carefully to every Apple keynote — that gadgets were supposed to make our lives better.
They’d make our souls giddier. They’d even make doing business easier.
This week, however, I’ve encountered two gadgets that have created disturbing sensations in too many parts of my being.
The first comes from LG. It’s the LG Watch W7. This is a no-doubt sincere attempt at preserving some small element of a human world.
Yet it offers a perfectly artistic exposition of the true clash of cultures between man and machine.
Like so many wrist-borne gadgets, the Watch W7 displays notifications. It also has mechanical hands.
So, in a painful attempt to let the two co-exist, it gives you a button to move the mechanical hands out of the way in order to actually read the notifications.
We’re all doomed, aren’t we?
We’re screaming into the past, while knowing that the future will swallow us whole.