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The iPod is one of the pernicious developments of recent technological innovation. It, even more than electronic gaming, has fostered what seems to be the ideal environment for the social solipsist. Electronic gaming, once the scourge of mothers and fathers trying to communicate with their kids, has now evolved into a social phenomenon, where groups participate. But iPod owners revel in the splendid isolation provided by a hand-size player and a pair of earphones.
Reprinted by permission of Open Court Publishing Company, a division of Carus Publishing Company, from IPOD AND PHILOSOPHY edited by Dylan Whitkower (Popular Culture and Philosophy series Volume 34), (c) 2008 by Carus Publishing Company.
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Pitt, J.C. (2011). Don’t Talk to Me. In: Doing Philosophy of Technology. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0820-4_4
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