Conundrum
I've been attempting to draw some sort of functional dividing line to separate my "online" from "offline" lives as I prepare to go offline. I earlier decided that I couldn't avoid using computers completely, if I wanted to be technical about it--if I was going to draw the line at microchips in general, I couldn't even drive (let alone use the microwave or an ATM, talk on the phone, or watch movies on DVD); I'd have to become a hermit. This wasn't a good solution, because the point of the whole experiment was to see how going offline affected my everyday life, and I'm not really a hermit (although I sometimes aspire to that job classification).
So here's my conundrum. Can I use my cellphone? I have a
Sony-Ericsson T616 that, among other things, runs Java. Now I don't use many of the networked features possible with the phone. I haven't activated text or multimedia messaging, and the Java-based games that come standard with the phone are pretty dull (Q-Bert and Snakes, and I haven't downloaded any others). It has Bluetooth, but if I'm not going to use a standard computer, that's pointless.
I'm leaning towards using it, given the overall goals of the experiment. But it's a complicated decision.
Posted by johndan at May 16, 2004 10:29 PM
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