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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 23, when did the smart phone become our master key?

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Lately I have been thinking a lot about how much time I spend on my smart phone, and how over time, those phones have become the de facto master keys for our lives. Is that even desirable?
Notes:
  • Recently thinking about why the mobile phone has become our master key in life.
  • This stems from some recent test drives I done on EVs, many of which can be accessed via an app of your phone rather than a fob or key.
  • In recent years, the phone is used for:
    • - Checking in to flights.
    - Bank transaction confirmations.
    - Payments.
  • The QR Code technology technology has become something of a curse.
  • Basically, pretty much all two-factor authentication processes these days use the phone as the second factor. Why?
  • When I was in my early twenties, mobile phones had just come out, they were all basic GSM devices with monochrome LCD screens.
  • The coolest person in my social circle had no mobile, and despised how anti-social they were making people. Turns out he was right.
  • The mobile phone is now an identification and tracking device, whether we like it or not.
  • In the face of this, I see more and more people exploring the possibility of ditching the smart phone and returning to dumb phones, even younger people who never used a dumb phone before.
  • Often referred to as minimalist phones, the Light Phone is an interesting example of that: https://www.thelightphone.com/
  • This is a nice trend, however I genuinely wonder if it is possible to get through life without a smartphone anymore, given how many identification use cases depend upon it.
  • Do our devices work for us, or do we work for them?
  • What I am working on this week:
    • - five.today - I fixed a bug impacted upon account activation, when the user switches devices during that process.
    - greppr.org - I greatly improved the responsive rendering of the site on mobile devices. In addition, I'm adding 20k web pages per day to the index which now stands at 1,180,457.
  • Media I am enjoying this week:
    • - Silo on Apple+
    - Currently reading: A Case of Conscience by James Blish.

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