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The Cure for Fewer Devices


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I totally get the use of an accelerometer, whatever in a watch or in a band that you wear on your wrist for a workout. And I think that that's valuable. All of that stuff makes super sense for you as an individual. But that's not an experience where you're engaging with it to replace some other social interaction.

That's just you getting utility as you live your life. What I'm saying is the idea that you start to rely on a device as your interface into the world, I would take the exact other side of the bat, which is I think that humans are getting so sick and tired of only communicating in these very rigid ways.

If you look at our children's generation, they don't know how to make eye contact, they don't know how to talk. And I think it's going to come back and bite them in the ass. And so I think the pendulum is going to swing in the other direction where it's like, OK, enough of this stuff.

Let's actually look each other in the eye and talk to each other the way that humans were meant to be. And I think that in that devices like a glucose monitor or a band has value. But I don't think it's going to be this interface where you're sign languaging it while you're at Coachella.

I think you're going to rip the devices off and actually be at Coachella without