{"id":416,"date":"2023-04-06T12:30:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/?p=416"},"modified":"2023-04-06T12:30:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:30:23","slug":"can-we-auto-correct-humanity-by-prince-ea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/archives\/416","title":{"rendered":"Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? by Prince Ea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dRl8EIhrQjQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Prince Ea, &#8220;Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Did you know the average person spends 4 years of his life looking down at his cell phone?<br \/>\nKind of ironic, ain&#8217;t it?<br \/>\nHow these touch screens can make us lose touch<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s no wonder in a world filled with iMacs, iPads and iPhones<br \/>\nSo many &#8220;i&#8221;\u2019s, so many selfies, not enough &#8220;us&#8221;&#8216;s and &#8220;we&#8221;\u2019s<br \/>\nSee, technology has made us more selfish and separate than ever<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause while it claims to connect us, connection has gotten no better<br \/>\nAnd let me must express first, Mr. Zuckerberg<br \/>\nNot to be rude, but you should re-classify Facebook to what it is: an anti-social network<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause while we may have big friend lists<br \/>\nSo many of us are friendless, all alone<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause friendships are more broken than the screens on our very phones<br \/>\nWe sit at home on our computers measuring self-worth by numbers of followers and likes<br \/>\nIgnoring those who actually love us<br \/>\nIt seems we\u2019d rather write an angry post than talk to someone who might actually hug us<br \/>\nAm I bugging? You tell me<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause I asked a friend the other day, &#8220;Let&#8217;s meet up face to face.&#8221;<br \/>\nThey said, &#8220;Alright. What time you wanna Skype?&#8221;<br \/>\nI responded with &#8220;OMG!&#8221;, &#8220;SRS?&#8221;, and then a bunch of &#8220;SMH&#8221;&#8216;s<br \/>\nAnd realized, what about me?<br \/>\nDo I not have the patience to have conversation without abbreviation?<br \/>\nThis is the generation of media overstimulation<br \/>\nChats have been reduced to snaps<br \/>\nThe news is 140 characters<br \/>\nVideos are 6 seconds at high speed<br \/>\nAnd you wonder why ADD is on the rise faster than 4G LTE<br \/>\nBut, get a load of this<br \/>\nStudies show the attention span of the average adult today<br \/>\nIs one second lower than that of a goldfish<br \/>\nSo if you&#8217;re one of the few people or aquatic animals that have yet to click off or close this video, congratulations<br \/>\nLet me finish by saying you do have a choice, yes<br \/>\nBut this one, my friends, we cannot auto-correct \u2013 we must do it ourselves<br \/>\nTake control or be controlled: make a decision<br \/>\nMe?<br \/>\nNo longer do I want to spoil a precious moment by recording it with a phone \u2013 I&#8217;m just gonna keep them<br \/>\nI don\u2019t wanna take a picture of all my meals anymore \u2013 I&#8217;m just gonna eat them<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want the new app, the new software, or the new update<br \/>\nAnd if I wanna post an old photo, who says I have to wait until Thursday?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so tired of performing in the pageantry of vanity<br \/>\nAnd conforming to this accepted form of digital insanity<br \/>\nCall me crazy, but I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause that will mean we&#8217;ll be one bar closer&#8230;to humanity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Ea, &#8220;Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?&#8221; Did you know the average person spends 4 years of his life looking down at his cell phone? Kind of ironic, ain&#8217;t it? How these touch screens can make us lose touch But it&#8217;s no wonder in a world filled with iMacs, iPads and iPhones So many &#8220;i&#8221;\u2019s, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}