Hi @Eric_Morris,
You’re so right that human to human interaction is incredibly important. I particularly like your examples of ways to spend time offline. Although they aren’t directly relevant to me (no children, no cigars etc.) by even imagining those situations, the emotional response is spot on. Living our lives in the present moment, surrounded by the people we care about, is a truly beautiful thing.
There was a paper from about 2010, which suggested “an evolutionary framework to explore the dynamics of social interaction in an environment where social relationships can be developed in two possible ways: through face to face encounters (the FF strategy), or by means of a mix of actual meetings and online interactions (SN strategy).” Their findings suggested “that the new opportunities for participation offered by social networking may progressively lead a growing share x of the population to embrace the SN strategy.”[1] It would appear as though, in 2019, people have really embraced the SN strategy, without understanding the consequences of such a decision as it wasn’t really a decision they made consciously.
In terms of your suggested features, your ideas have been passed on to the design team and although some will not be available on Mudita Pure. Perhaps we will implement them in our second phone.
- There will be several modes which allow you to control who calls or messages you.
- There will be a desktop app which will connect to your phone.
- There will be Bluetooth 4.2 connectivity.
- There will be a music player.
- There will be a calendar.
- There will not be any Near-field communication (NFC).
- There will be a note section but I don’t believe there will be a way to save digital boarding passes, as Mudita Pure will not connect to the internet.
Not relevant to the phone but rather to your interest in living a distraction free life, there’s a really nice interdisciplinary, multiscientific journal called ‘Human Technology’ which publishes articles on investigating the human role in existing and emerging technologies, which you might find interesting.
1. Antoci, Angelo and Sabatini, Fabio and Sodini, Mauro (2010): See you on Facebook: the effect of social networking on human interaction. [Online] https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27661/ (Accessed: 22.08.2019) 