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When Does Technolust Become An Addiction?
An anonymous reader writes "According to a CNet article, an incredible one in three people aged 16 to 24 in the UK would not give up their mobile phone for a million pounds. 'The phone-centric survey, called Mobile Life, was carried out across the UK and questioned 1,256 people aged 16 to 64 on a variety of topics ... So young people really like having a mobile phone and we all love buying gadgets. But before you dismiss this research as stating the bleeding obvious, think about this -- if someone had told you even ten years ago that people would be taking out second mortgages to buy flat screen TVs, would you have believed it?' Is this just the result of deliberately skewed marketing dressed up as research, or is this another indication of western culture's obsession with communication and technology? How much is too much tech?"
We'll find out June 29.
Say it with me: it's only a phone...it's only a phone...
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If some marketing person asks me what the capital of France is, I say something like "Moscow". If they ask me who the prime minister is, I say "Michael Jackson". If someone is stupid enough to ask if I'd give up my phone for a million pounds, what do you think I'm going to say? These surveys are worthless, and we all have a duty to make them more so.
"Too much tech" - I can understand each word individually, but putting them together that way just doesn't seem to make sense.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
1)give up mobile for £1m
2)buy new mobile
3)profit!
I wouldn't need the numbers from my old mobile as obviously
I'd be disowning my friends and family for hot coke bitches...
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I can quit anytime.
No, really.
After I get a new Macbook. And we need a flat-panel TV for the den, and some kind of media server. And oh yeah, I want a GPS for the car.
But I'm not addicted. Really.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
I'd probably pay a million quid to have it taken away!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Yeah but it never really made sense. I mean it isn't actually a 'figure', is it?
Woah! That's like a thousand dollars.
I've never had a cell phone, and never will. Where's my million pounds?
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You've got a good job (or no job?).
If I had a million pounds I wouldn't need a cell phone. One catch - I get to rid myself of the Treo by smashing it on the concrete the next time it resets while I'm doing a web search.
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A million pounds? Fucking hell for that sort of money you can have my phone and I'll throw in a testicle too...
Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.
Of course, a million pounds is really heavy, and a mobile phone is really light, who wants to carry around 500 tons? And a million pounds of what?
Homer: Ohhhhh, 20 dollars! I wanted a peanut!
Homer's Brain: 20 dollars can buy many peanuts.
Homer: Explain how!
Homer's Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
Homer: Woohoo!
s/Peanut/Cell Phone/g
s/20 dollars/1 million/pounds/g
It becomes an addiction when you make up a creepy name for it. You know, like "Technolust".
I'm pretty sure we're a post or two away from "Doc Ruby" telling us we're glib and don't know the history of psychology.
What sound does a duck make?
We'll find out June 29.
No, that's when we'll find out if people will give up a million pounds for a mobile phone.
I would give it up - in the mean time I would just get a tight little portable internet device and wait it out till mobile phones move on in the tech world like pagers did-
either that or pay someone a half a million pounds to kill the guy watching me to make sure I don't get a cell phone
One-third of 16 to 24 year olds in the UK are stupid.
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