Cell phones own chewing gum
Posted by unbrand on 8 April 2005 | 0 Comments
Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the creator of the PSP game Lumines, posts on his blog about some ways that society changes. In talking about how he believes instincts can change, he gives an example:
About five or six years ago in Japan, all of a sudden, chewing gum lost its popularity. The gum manufactures were wondering why, so they began taking surveys. One cause that they found was that cell phones were taking the place of chewing gum by monopolizing people’s mouths. So when people are bored at the station or wherever, they gradually have been using cell phones more and more and thus have cut back on their idle gum chewing.
His point is that technology can alter people’s instinctual habits. Fun to think about…