Yes, this is a neat idea: having a way to signal social disapproval to a phone being used nearby in an inappropriate way. But what amused me more about this post was Matt Webb's confident assumption that his ideas about social norms is what prevails. I mean, putting phones on airplane mode? Nobody does that (if phones actually were dangerous, planes would be falling out of the sky every day). And from what I can see, everybody in the VIP section is making full-length concert recordings. And it just goes to show - if we could signal social disapproval to our phones, ti would be just one more source of conflict in society. As though we don't have enough. So beware - when you start talking about 'social norms' remember that not everyone shares the same sense of society.
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