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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same goes with reading skills, which at some point weren't needed in society I bet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting perspective but then I think of the data on this phone as an extension of my privacy/private life; literacy doesn't track.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I guess privacy is getting more and more popular nowadays. Hopefully private smartphones will become easier to get

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, phones such, literacy doesn't. But phones could have better software and hardware, then it would be fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Except that skills aren't at risk of being stolen, lost or stop working. Phones are tools, not skills.