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The pleasure and possibilities of living a time-shifted life?

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TaoPhoenix:
Well, I can see the advantages/benefits of the approach, but there might be a disadvantage or two (2)  ;).
Like dental appointments, maybe?  Or cancer surgery?  Or jury duty?  Granted, that's an extreme, but ...
-barney (August 06, 2012, 09:14 PM)
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Under a bit of flair, it looks like this is largely talking about "media entertainment" in general. It doesn't work as well for almost any other category. You can't randomly not do "required" tasks and then decide you're bored and go serve your Jury Duty for the O. J. Simpson case.

So since it's about media consumption, it was easy in the old days for the advertisers and producers, they'd all bicker for the Thursday at Eight slot or whichever night had The Killer Show on it. Now that people are either day-shifting or year-shifting, we're saying that we're making ourselves less valuable to traditional advertising. Hence all the other woes that befall us with the more invasive ads.

barney:
Under a bit of flair, it looks like this is largely talking about "media entertainment" in general. It doesn't work as well for almost any other category. You can't randomly not do "required" tasks and then decide you're bored and go serve your Jury Duty for the O. J. Simpson case.
-TaoPhoenix (August 06, 2012, 11:03 PM)
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Oh  :huh:?

I wonder if this approach can't be extended to other less-obvious domains of life?  What would life be like if one purposefully shifted their entire focus of life back 5 years?
-mouser (August 06, 2012, 07:03 PM)
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I read that as a bit more than media, don't you?  With that in mind, my comments stand  :P.

TaoPhoenix:

I wonder if this approach can't be extended to other less-obvious domains of life?  What would life be like if one purposefully shifted their entire focus of life back 5 years?
-mouser (August 06, 2012, 07:03 PM)
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I read that as a bit more than media, don't you?  With that in mind, my comments stand  :P.
-barney (August 06, 2012, 11:23 PM)
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Well, there's some great SciFi story material there! I can see the ads now. "Getting old and tired? Annoyed you gained 20 pounds in 5 years? Shift your life back 5 years instantly! Undo that bad marriage!"  :D

Renegade:
The only problem I can see with time-shifting 'real time' things too much is it makes everything effectively 'virtual' - which I think has a bad effect on some people. Because once everything becomes somewhat unreal or 'less real' there's a risk of a damaging sense of alienation creeping into a person's mindset. At least from my experience with people who electively spend much of their lives in the metaverse and mostly removed from 'real world' sequential reality and causality.
-40hz (August 06, 2012, 07:42 PM)
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BOOM~! Nice insight there! +1 The increasing disconnect is there for anyone that wants to see it.

Reminds me of an insightful essay that most people would laugh at and dismiss without ever reading:

INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabomber#Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future


For time-shifting, I love it. :D

It's great to put on "season #" of a show, especially if it's a great show like Trailer Park Boys. :D (Stuck in season 1 & 2 a week or so ago.)


But, if you look at it a bit differently, you can only "time-shift" live events. If you look at a newspaper, isn't everything in there already time-shifted? This isn't a very productive perspective though as it is really limiting. Like, who would want to watch a time-shifted news program of live coverage of some random sporting event or parade from 10 years ago?


For products, I'm in the "wait & see" boat usually. I'd rather wait until the price of technology comes down and the quality goes up. But not too long... My Raspberry Pi (that I have yet to play with) at $35 has hundreds or thousands of times more power than the $4,000 computer we had when I was a kid. Waiting decades isn't really all that wonderful. So, it all depends on what's out there.

I think eleman's idea of buying a 2-year old graphics card is bang on! Great example of hitting a sweet spot in performance per $.

If you look at music, truth be told, there's so much out there that if nobody ever wrote another song, you'd still never be able to listen to all the music, and "time-shifted" music would all be new to you.

Seems like time-shifting kind of destroys "new" in some ways, or makes "new" kind of pointless. Well, unless you're a vapid fashionista with your identity wrapped up in commercialism, brand-value, and rapidly fading trends. :P (Hmm... kind of sounds like 'fanboi'.)

Mulling that over, seems to me like the "app store" model forces people to stay current with hardware and software as it's either impossible or too difficult to get out of those walled gardens, which makes "time-shifting" either more difficult or impossible in those contexts. Good for the seller, but not so great for the buyer/user.

It's kind of hard to do sometimes with software/computers/phones. Interoperability seems to be the stumbling block there.

Classic books? :D Some books are timeless. Every now and then I go back to some books of essays I have to read for fun. 20, 200, or 2000 years doesn't diminish them in the least. I wonder how much of the music and movies now will be like that? In 200 years, what movies from this period will people consider worth watching?

TaoPhoenix:

I time shifted shoes once! For a while back in the days, I had a bit of trouble finding shoes that fit right. So one time I found some fun classy looking black steel toed boots that looked almost like loafers, I bought an entire extra pair! So then when the first pair wore out a couple of years later, there was my time shifted pair!  8)

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