![]() ![]() ![]() Microsoft’s answer: Buy a wristband that performs many of the functions that those other devices do! See, the Band is smaller and it’s on your wrist. What do I have to do, besides ditch the technology you spent the last 20 seconds running down? I’m interested in most-of-every-moment-making. “We call them moments because they don’t last, and we don’t know their value until they’re gone… so make the most of every moment,” intones the narrator. “tied to our desks” (person power-types with a ferocity rarely seen outside prison movies), “looking down at our phones” (person noodles with device as child jumps into pool,Īn experience that is as unrepeatable as Super Bowl XLII) and “plugged in” (couple’s snuggling is corrupted, mechanically and emotionally, by the presence of a glowing phone). To hear Microsoft tell it, we’re missing precious moments while That the Band will engage users in a way that’s less distracting than smart phones and computers and such. The clip introduces the Microsoft Band, a tech-connected wrist thingamabob that, apparently, will not prevent its users from participating in life. Nudging me towards a candidate who’s pro-basic human decency and anti-patchouli), there’s still little chance I would’ve been able to find much to like about “ Microsoft Band: Live Healthier,” a rare Microsoft attempt to do something online that doesn’t involve accidental sabotage of my But even if the election experiment had gone swimmingly (by, say, It’s thus been a trying week for advertising and me. For what it’s worth, nothing in theĬonstitution explicitly forbids governance by Astral Council. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Democracy doesn’t work. Who believe that a seven-year-old Barack Obama faked the moon landing. By strictly adhering to the rules I set, I ended up limiting my voting options to underfunded fascists and wingnuts In retrospect, I didn’t think this one all the way through. The idea was that I wouldn’t support anyone who violated the sanctity of my family time, knowingly or Phone to tally the politicians who got all up in my grille via dinner-hour robocalls. As part of my ongoing relationship with marketing, I conducted what the cool science kids might refer to as an “experiment.” In the run-up to Election Day, I kept a log next to the ![]()
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