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I came across this blogpost/essay on Reddit (sorry). The essay is ostensibly about the Casio F-91W, but also about the oppressiveness of the internet of things and how technology often demands so much of our attention. I thought the Lemmy community might appreciate the sentiment.

The Last Quiet Thing

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[โ€“] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I used to have one. It hurt my wrist. I don't need to know what the time is at all in that sort of physical attachment. The clock is on the wall, my phone and my desktop. I don't need to have a rando company gather data about my physical activities all day long so I can get a pretty graph while they sell information about my health to insurance companies so they can raise my premium based of my couch potatoes. Like seriously nah. I also don't need to call a guy or AI from my wrist like Michael Knight.

[โ€“] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

You are thinking about smart watches and not watches, watches just tell you the time and have an alarm.