Re: [NNagain] science and reading scores peaked in 2009 and 2012

["Dick Roy" <dickroy@alum.mit.edu>]

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I share the same concern about lack of personal communication, especially
given that less than 30% of the “what” that is communicated between people
is contained in the words exchanged … more than 70% is found in the rest
including facial expression, tone of voice, hand gestures, etc.. 

 

Oh well … so now I am stuck with just using words, so you will only be
getting 30% or less of my intention :-(:-( Be that as it may, Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!  May the new year bring peace, joy,
and good health to all!

 

Cheers,

 

RR

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nnagain [mailto:nnagain-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net] On Behalf Of
Dave Taht via Nnagain
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2023 6:06 AM
To: Network Neutrality is back! Let´s make the technical aspects heard this
time!
Cc: Dave Taht
Subject: [NNagain] science and reading scores peaked in 2009 and 2012

 

Not that slashdot is a particularly good source, but I do read the
atlantic...

 

https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/12/23/0544206/are-phones-making-the-world
s-students-dumber

 

In my case I was just on two American planes where absolutely everyone

was on their phone, tablet, or laptop. In one walk to the bathroom at

the back of the plane, in the middle of the afternoon, there were

three conversations going on, about 5% people working, the rest all

watching a different show (not a single shared experience). I sat next

to someone from an VR company that did project management there who

spent the entire trip texting (with TWO phones) over the viasat

service ($15/hr) to dozens and dozens of people. Max time off the

phone was no more than 15 seconds, long enough to open a cracker. She

seemed to never have an internet issue (though with all the

multitasking perhaps the latencies were hidden). I finally got a word

in edgewise on landing... I had great hope she knew what a packet was,

but she didn´t. She grokked "latency", had not heard of bufferbloat.

 

The new movie Maestro is really excellent, btw. I watched some of it

from between the seats ahead of me, with my head otherwise down trying

to block out all the internet access around me.

 

While I worry all the more about all we have done to humanity´s

ability to communicate physically and with strangers I wish y'all a

merry christmas and a happy new year, with your families!

 

 

 

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Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos

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