related thought on 'spending hours on your phone' that I'll transcribe here, in the abstract you'd expect "device to all accessible information, text and video, past and present" would be enormously more interesting and fun than almost anything that happened to be going on in the
room you were in, the bus station you were waiting at, etc. and so it would be odd, bizarre even, if that didn't end up being a popular pastime for the well-organized mind (average user scrolling videos of people punching each other or moving colored blocks around then a separate
issue). but the 'abstract' use case really should be better than almost anything else, just by the nature of the device and of enlightened human preferences to like, see and think about things instead of staring at grass or strangers sharing public transit w them for 15 minutes
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reading a book about daily life in 1800s now and probably the most viscerally alien part of it, relative to current fabric of life, is how much more everyone worked. people would work sunup to sundown, 6 days a week, to barely make enough wage to buy food for themselves
children worked all the time in extremely unproductive fashion (~10% of adult wage?). 6 year olds would help at home with their parents labor, or extra children or orphans would be employed in factories in 12 hour shifts, 6 days a week. children worked in mines. etc.
standard seems to have been 1 or 2 week of summer vacation a year, often to visit family in the rural home (cities were 'demographic black holes' & also growing, most people in them were born in countryside). so would only see family once a year