Whetstone - a Calm OS

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these guys are way ahead of him: https://www.thelightphone.com/

[–]tiny-brown-mug 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hear you. I love the Light Phone, but couldn't justify spending that much.

Still. I like what this dude is doing. This looks like basically another Light Phone idea, but imho the more non-smart alternatives we have, the better. Mudita was a tragic disappointment for many.

There is also this gem : https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html

[–]Countach_3D 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Checking the time on a smartphone is another one of those actions that puts a smartphone in your hand. To untrain this impulse, Whetstone will never give you the time of day.

Arguably trading apps for physical wristwatches and alarm clocks is a prime example of The Unix Philosophy.

Twenty-six years ago, two technologists envisioned a different kind of future: one where humans and quiet, unobtrusive computers comfortably co-existed.

In their prophetic 1996 essay The Coming Age of Calm Technology, Marc Weiser and John Seely Brown spoke of a time when tiny, Internet-enabled computers would be embedded in everything from clocks, to toys, to microwave ovens. When such a time came, they advised, the design patterns of the Mainframe and Personal Computing eras would no longer serve us; instead, Ubiquitous Computing would require us to "radically rethink the goals, context, and technology of the computer and all the other technology crowding into our lives."

This is huge, a total paradigm shift, really forcing me to rethink what a phone is and could be. Thanks, OP.