We look on the internet, walk
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 8:13 am
More power over our own time
I am fascinated by the question of whether the use of technology influences the extent to which we can control our own time. The idea is that we become smarter if we have more power over our own time. More time to learn, more time for research into intelligence-enhancing food, more time for education. And in that context, another study caught my attention. In October last year, Conlumino investigated purchasing behavior in the retail sector. Our ancestors were single-channel buyers, even if they didn't call it that themselves. Going to the cattle market, looking at the cow, clapping hands, getting your money's worth and going home with a cow. It may have taken a ghana mobile phone number list day, but you took that into account. That's different now.
Extra timepast the store, compare, ask friends if they have any tips and all of this takes place between bricks, mobile phones and laptops. If we had the intention to buy something in 2002, we actually had it in our possession after just over five days on average. Ten years later, that is different. Then it takes an average of more than ten days before we have made our move. And, even more importantly, we now spend 67% more time on this purchase. We spend that extra time mainly at the beginning of our search. We do thorough research, we compare qualities and prices, we want to know what others thought of it and we do this across different channels. Shopping on the beautiful internet, it takes time. And so we take less time to develop ourselves.
Are we getting smarter or dumber?
It will be the evolutionary battle of the coming years. The stupid one drinks himself to a water poisoning from the free and time-wasting drip, the smart one sips and delegates. Does the net make us smarter or dumber? It makes the smart smarter and the dumb dumber, I think. On balance, nothing changes.
I am fascinated by the question of whether the use of technology influences the extent to which we can control our own time. The idea is that we become smarter if we have more power over our own time. More time to learn, more time for research into intelligence-enhancing food, more time for education. And in that context, another study caught my attention. In October last year, Conlumino investigated purchasing behavior in the retail sector. Our ancestors were single-channel buyers, even if they didn't call it that themselves. Going to the cattle market, looking at the cow, clapping hands, getting your money's worth and going home with a cow. It may have taken a ghana mobile phone number list day, but you took that into account. That's different now.
Extra timepast the store, compare, ask friends if they have any tips and all of this takes place between bricks, mobile phones and laptops. If we had the intention to buy something in 2002, we actually had it in our possession after just over five days on average. Ten years later, that is different. Then it takes an average of more than ten days before we have made our move. And, even more importantly, we now spend 67% more time on this purchase. We spend that extra time mainly at the beginning of our search. We do thorough research, we compare qualities and prices, we want to know what others thought of it and we do this across different channels. Shopping on the beautiful internet, it takes time. And so we take less time to develop ourselves.
Are we getting smarter or dumber?
It will be the evolutionary battle of the coming years. The stupid one drinks himself to a water poisoning from the free and time-wasting drip, the smart one sips and delegates. Does the net make us smarter or dumber? It makes the smart smarter and the dumb dumber, I think. On balance, nothing changes.