Suitable: Only for the healthy

[matrixmann]

Some annotation for the developers of "modern" technology:

Such things as swiping and pinpointing on touchscreens are very uncomfortable for people with clumsy or damaged fine motor skills.
If you already curse about hitting the space in between two keys on the keyboard too often, or directly not the keys that you wanted to push, and if you already hit the wrong places with your mouse cursor too many times on the screen on a normal computer, you'll cheer about a device that expects from you to just work with a single finger all the time.

In other words: This technology is definitely only developed for healthy people. Not for people with handicaps.

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[matrixmann]

Didn't even have that in mind, but you're pretty much right.

I came across this thought as watching typing or doing anything on his smartphone. Thought like "damn, you better have no clumsy hands like the clumsy smurf for this".
You know, I don't know if you ever heard descriptions from that field of disease, but people sick with MS, I think, have quite some bit of troubles with clumsy fine motorics because of the ongoing nerve damage. The longer you're sick with it, the sooner you've got to do with this shit. It's like something that happens within the frame of this disease...
And then imagine, if you're involuntarily clumsy with your hands and fingers from such a thing - if you need to deal with this kind of crap.
BANG. You curse until the very day about struggling getting anything done... You're not intellectualy dumb or so, but your nerves already have such a high error rate that they don't do what they're supposed to do by your will.

In another aspect, diseasewise, I find it very impractical too: Parkinson's disease is a disease that lets the ability of your nerves shrink slowly to perform the part that is "calming them down".
Actually, nerves and their cell chains down the body work all the time, receive signals from the brain all the time.
What prevents you from twitching because of that is a mechanism of your nerve system.
This kind of mechanism continually goes broken when you're hit with Parkinson's disease. People with nerve damage from long-ongoing alcohol abuse can have such signs through restless hands too.
I think I once saw a woman which must have been sick with P.'s disease - her arm was like twitching around all the time, it never stopped.
Try to imagine what navigating is like with this normally, and then performing fine motorics work...

This ain't technologically advanced, this is hell on earth.

I even wonder, because kids these days first get to play with a smartphone before they touch a crayon, their fine motorics are gonna be none of the best too in the coming future, so what do they think this is practical for? Not even talking about: Spreading this concept?

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

You know what else occurred to me? E-books. Some people even in my journal were advocating the idea to get rid of books and switch to e-books and if you read them on devices it is also a type of discrimination against people with such conditions, cause you need to swipe and such. I find e-books very inconvenient.

[matrixmann]

E-books are something for if you wanna aquire a thousand books in your possession if you don't have the material space to store them all in your living space.
Or for stuff that comes with multimedia contents in the texts.
Other than that, I don't know, if you have to store lots of books in your flat, usually you know what you've read and what you'd find worth keeping because you thought well of the story or because you would be wanting to read it again.
With E-books it's like - you'll probably also have a lot of junkfood literature on the harddisk of your reader. Stuff that you went through once, maybe even not completely, and then put it aside like "oh, no, that's none of the good shit...".

Needless to say: It's just the same like with a normal computer. Better do your maintenance and backups.
And even then, technology can fuck you up, if they come up with a new maximize-profit system - or the thing has its 10.000 hours functioning counter down to 0...

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

They meant eliminating libraries. I personally cannot read comfortably on the device.

[matrixmann]

Hm... I don't know if that's so good.
Remember what public libraries where: "Reading in a silent atmosphere". That wasn't there for nothing...
People can concentrade better on contents if they can just gather their thoughts and concentrate.

Another thing I'm thinking about in connection with that: You probably already heard it somewhere that some people have troubles with sleeping if they've stared on monitors too recently before they go to bed?
They say, the bright light of monitors (such is an ebook reader too) obstructs the production of a substance called "melatonin", which is a hormone strongly connected with switching human "active mode" to "sleep mode". Like the body still is left to believe it's daytime, even though it might be physically tired and all.
People affected by that, they advise to stop watching TV or using the computer or the mobile phone half an hour at least before planning to go to bed. Then they supposedly get better along with the shift.

Don't know how many are affected by that, but since more and more monitors pop up in peoples' lives, it's said to be a phenomenon that spreads - in combination with all the other stress that people have to get along with day by day.