There’s definitely value in not constantly being tethered to a device reminding you how many steps you’ve taken, e-mails, etc. Also I’m reminded me of a quote:
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The dream used to be one device that does everything but I’ve backed away from that mentality hard. I even have two separate PCs now with nothing syncing between them.
ape-descended
It’s very popular to call humans some variant of this, and while it’s correct, it also implies that humans are no longer apes. They are.
This is true, there are two kinds of animal, monkey or ape. Because if it doesn’t have a tail it’s not a monkey, even if it’s a monkey kinda shape. If it doesn’t have a tail it’s not a monkey, if it doesn’t have a tail…it’s an ape!
Or at least that’s what I learned from my parents force feeding me nothing but VeggieTales for far too long.
Yup, that’s correct! Primates without tails are apes, and we’re a primate without a tail.
