Code and Days and iPhone Loneliness

The days are growing longer and longer as summer comes seeping into our little neighborhood. It is already hotter than it should be at this time of year which doesn’t bode well for the next three months. Despite how wonderful the days have been, I find myself wanting to be at a beach somewhere with you and little Cora. Sitting on the sand, closing our eyes as we face the sun.

There is always this urge to be elsewhere when the seasons are changing. Most often for us it is to be at the beach, which is probably true of most people. I personally, miss hiking alone or with my parents before my mom got an iPhone. I miss the rare closeness of people without machines. I feel as if Steve, had he lived, would have been greatly upset by what he started. I hope that he would have worked to curtail the sad insanity of phones glowing in the faces of children that he himself imprisoned.

I doubt he would have created yet another way to destroy the silence with the apple watch. Ive is noted to love the bling, the great design of the symbols of the wealth of the past. Jobs believed in creating things that would extend the human race, of making the bicycle of the mind go faster for everyone. His company instead is enabling the great dumbing of the nation and the world, a generation of children that only pretend to understand the flickering images on their phones without any real interest in how the greatest leap in human endeavor since the invention of language actually works (the internet). They will be deluged with distractions that make them think they are powerless, when all they really have to do is open a window and code.