Smarter than you, and more diligent than you.

The last working day of 2012, I need to solve my son's breakfast problem. The father and son take the village bar, ready to go to the tea restaurant to enjoy Hong Kong cuisine.


Son from the front door of the village bar, I was on the back door. He sat down in the first row of seats behind the driver, and I stood in the open area in the middle of the car. This time period, carrying baskets or bags out of the old people to buy food too much, and after a while squeezed into the seat, instead of sitting in the beginning. From my point of view, my son's behavior is in the eye.


He's playing with his cell phone. Focus on the right hand to quickly brush screen, the action than the rural old too planing radish silk more skilled, or the mouth of the open, maybe some anime picture attracted him, but most of the time, his expression and gesture just mechanically maintain a state: eyes for the look and see, right hand for moving.


Soon, a gray-dressed old lady sat beside him. The son glanced at the peripheral vision of his eyes. Later, the old Lady went down, and that seat sat up with a new grandfather who had just bought vegetables. Five or six minutes later, everyone got off. The son finally lifted his gaze from the small map.


After I sat down at the restaurant, my son pulled out his cell phone and I decided to talk to him. I asked him, "just on the village bar, do you know where dad is?" "Don't know." The son shook his head with honesty. "So, who are you sitting around?" "An old lady, as if dressed in grey." "Has it been her?" "Yes," he told me. "He's not quite sure.


I pressed my temper and told him the truth: I had been standing opposite him. His neighbour, the old lady, replaced her grandfather. Then I do a little extension: "The closest person, you ignore, and the nearest stranger to you, you do not do any observation and judgment." If not in the safe and reliable village bar but in other circumstances, if the enthusiasm to attract your screen as always, you think Mom and dad will rest assured that you go out alone? ”


The son's hand moved away from the phone. When he was in grade five, we bought him a Samsung button phone. I asked him, "Why do you prefer an Apple phone?" "It's easier to use." "Yes, technology is getting better, but does its users become more and more stupid?" The son stared at me with big eyes. I went on to say, "in other words, ease of use may be at the expense of our own exploration, right?" For example, many people are accustomed to handwriting input, the result is a lot of Hanyu Pinyin will not. ”


"But is the fool not saving time for mankind?" "I can see that my son is a little defiant.


"But, with your performance today in the village bar as an example, you save time, instead of doubling the cost of a simple mechanical brush screen action to go to it?" ”


I do not intend to continue my lengthy conversation with my son, who is silent. I said: "Dad has a friend of the link to an article, to the effect is not afraid of others than you clever, afraid of smarter than you are more diligent than you." What we often see but not necessarily ponder is that jobs and his team are smarter than we are, more diligent than we are, and they are constantly launching products that make more ordinary people like us become more lazy and spend more of their money making themselves lazy machines. Drug addiction ', is this a huge business conspiracy? And we have given them so much praise! ”


At noon and a group of friends like to chat, just talk about parenting, I sigh: "I am really not sure that the son has accepted this truth, because at that time in the restaurant, our father and son around a few diners, regardless of the more than 50-year-old man, more than 20-year-old woman, or my son, the same age of youth, Although they were stuffed with food in their mouths, their eyes kept staring at the phone screen. ”


Friends say he often observes when he flies,in the waiting hall, most people who sit in first class read books, business class people like to open the computer processing documents, and the economy class is the most enthusiastic thing is on, micro-blog.


"First class people are generally older, perhaps not so familiar with the results of science and technology, right?" "I ask questions.


"No, it's not in the paper that Ma Weihua is probably the first person to introduce a BlackBerry to China?" ”


"There is only one explanation." Economy class people are busy with the screen, they are afraid of missing out what outside information, more afraid of themselves by the lively world forgotten. And the first class of the people themselves are often the source of information, they casually group in a circle of dinner, chatting, it may be the general netizen scratching half a year or even most of the most of the business opportunities or political affairs to solve the inside, so they can be more calm and busy work. ”


Went home at night, and said to the missus about having breakfast. Mrs. said no wonder afternoon and son shopping supermarket, ask son to eat Haagen-Dazs, the result son resolutely don't eat, also said this high fat food some of his classmates eat still feel oneself superior, actually behind hidden huge business conspiracy.

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Smarter than you, and more diligent than you.