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March 28, 2005
The Register: Should iPods carry health warnings?
In response to an Australian private school that has banned iPods, "because it encourages kids to be selfish and lonely," The Register has started a contest as well as concocted some of their own ideas for warning labels. Cheeky and funny, just the sort of thing I like to read on a Monday morning. See more here.
You know, I don't see how any music-related device can be socially alienating. Music, as far back as the cavemen banging on rocks with sticks, has always been a social activity. Blast forward to the twenty-first century and the single iPod-listening kid is still participating in a social activity by listening to his iPod. Finding out about new bands, recommending music to his friends, it's all a complex social activity even though the act of listening to music with headphones on my be done solitary. But I've got some news - headphones have been around longer than the iPod.
Posted on March 28, 2005 10:23 AM | Category: Culture
