The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span
Key takeaways
- When Tony Fadell entered New York City’s 28th Street Subway Station, he did not expect to come face-to-face with an advertisement for a product he designed over twenty years ago.
- “The first thing was, I thought, ‘Wait a second, did somebody not change the ad?’” Fadell, known as the father of the i Pod, told Tech Crunch.
- As Fadell stood in the train station, he was surrounded by people wearing wireless Bluetooth headphones to stream music on their phones, effortlessly accessing music libraries with over 100 million songs.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
When Tony Fadell entered New York City’s 28th Street Subway Station, he did not expect to come face-to-face with an advertisement for a product he designed over twenty years ago. But there it was: a five-by-four-foot poster promoting the i Pod Shuffle, luring passersby with the promise of “zero screen time.”
“The first thing was, I thought, ‘Wait a second, did somebody not change the ad?’” Fadell, known as the father of the i Pod, told Tech Crunch. “For somebody like me who knows that thing intimately, it’s like seeing your kid’s picture.”
As Fadell stood in the train station, he was surrounded by people wearing wireless Bluetooth headphones to stream music on their phones, effortlessly accessing music libraries with over 100 million songs. This technology that we take for granted makes Steve Jobs’ early iPod tagline – “one thousand songs in your pocket” – sound antiquated.