A British pub owner disabled cell
phones inside his bar because he
thinks social media is ruining the pub
business. The Gin Tub in Brighton
has a Faraday cage built into the
ceiling to make mobile reception
impossible so patrons will actually
interact with each other instead of
looking at their phones, which they
could have just done at home. Source
…Wow way to over-react. “I’m tired of people checking their phones so I’m just going to install a faraday cage.”
What if they have a family emergency? What if they’re arranging for friends to meet them at the pub? What if something happens in the pub and people need to call for emergency services, but they can’t?
This dude did not stop to think beyond being a completely kneejerk neophobe.
Dude, it’s an choice to go there for the atmosphere We have ‘escape rooms’ here where you PAY to be locked in a room for an hour and try to get out We have pools and saunas where you can’t use your phone either Dead zones, or twilight zones as some people are calling them, are easily stepped out of to check back in on the world
That’s not the reason he installed the faraday cage.
And in any event, I don’t agree with mandatory phone-free environments unless it is for a legitimate purpose (eg information security or making sure the medical equipment in a hospital can operate without interference). Phones are an extension of the notions of Freedom of Assembly and Freedom of Association.
People who are so distracted by their phones that they need mandatory phone-free atmospheres to relax should just learn some self control instead of imposing their hangups on everyone else.
The more that Millennials and Gen X'ers improve medicine and healthcare, the longer Baby Boomers will be around to fuck shit up for us.
At this point, Gen X has become part of the problem too. Gen X people prefer to hire Gen X people and lock inexperienced Millenials out of the job market in some fields, such as geology.
And by the time the new generations are coming along, the Millenials will become part of the problem.
It is good for power to be passed along from generation to generation, but over time, each generation in turn will reshape the system to suit themselves without any regard for the next generation. And then the next generation will be like “oh come on! You had your turn, now it’s our turn!” and the previous generation will be like “Young people don’t know what it’s like! Back in my day we only had two candidates to choose from, and one of them was an alien! Back in my day, wi-fi was delivered in gallons and only cost a nickel! Back in my day, youtube wasn’t the shithole it is now!”
We’re going to be crazy old people.
not necisarily true. People who lived through the great depression tend to be more generous and kind because tehy know how tough it can be. At this point, our generation is acknowledges that we won’t be in charge forever and we are going to make sure that the world can support the next generation
