Zappykins said:
I get that. Let me tell you a story. I have a friend, let's call him Dan, that is fairly traditional that has refused to get a cell phone. He loves classic old things and is restoring a vintage house - painstakingly very, very slowly. He has been working on it's fancy ceiling in the 'parlor' and it's one square foot at a time. I think the ceiling will take about a year by itself. Now that house is in such bad shape that Dan doesn't usually stay there. He stays a a condo he bought in town a mile or two away. He also has another house that he had in the country when he was working full time - which is probably 20 miles away. In addition to this, his husband has his own house that he bought before they got married. So at any given time, he could be at one of four houses - one, at least, definitely does not have a cell phone. He also boast about not having a cell phone like it's a good thing. In some way I think he feels superior to others who have 'let technology take over their lives.' That until recently. He got a cell phone a few months ago. He realizes you can call him at one number and get a hold of him, or leave him a message. He can also look things up, find restaurants, directions, and has opened a who new world Dan didn't realize he was missing. Sure he saw people who had them, and some of the things he did, but until he lived with one, he never quite realized what it would mean for him to have one. But I think if you lived with a Kinect for a while it you would more useful than you could have thought. |
The problem with your example is that there's nothing useful you can do with Kinect that you can't do with a remote control or controller. However with a cell phone you can do lots of useful things in situations where those things would be impossible to do if you didn't have one. Car broken down on the side of the road in stormy weather: with cellphone, call for help while staying safe and dry in your car; without cellphone, get drenched walking to the nearest house / shop / phone booth in order to call for help.
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