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Debate Score:72
Arguments:37
Total Votes:121
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Ipod = Disruptive Technology

Yes

Side Score: 32
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No

Side Score: 40
3 points

If you listen to your iPod whilst crossing the road, you are disconnected from everything around you - you cannot hear the traffic or cars, as you are so focused on the music. There are terrible accidents that occur, such as being hit by a car, all because you were being disrupted by listening to your iPod.

Side: Yes
1 point

Ipods are disruptive to everyday life because they cause a disturbance in the force between piped in schizophonics and external reality

Side: Yes
1 point

iPods create the disconnection between body and environment, and attention is essential, particularly for safety.

Side: Yes
Tishue Disputed
1 point

With the invention of the I-Pod shuffle, the use of the screen becomes unnecessary, allowing users to fully concentrate on the world around them. Even with I-pods that did feature a screen, thanks to playlists, the music playing are all what the listener has selected. With this comes personal preference and predictability of music playing and reduces the amount the screen is seen drastically. Again, allowing the user to concentrate on their environment.

Side: No
1 point

Install True Skate on your iPod and then tell me it's not disruptive. I'm so distracted right now I can't even come up with a proper point.

Side: Yes
1 point

Listening is an active skill, and iPods disrupt our everyday life, and cause us to be distracted from whats going on around us.

Side: Yes
1 point

Distracts from living in the real world, forcing modern Western society to effectively live through a screen.

Side: Yes
Tishue Disputed
1 point

We are not looking at a screen, we are listening through ear plugs. The distraction could not be apparent if the real world is still being seen by the user. The space is still there, but the time has been beautifully by the music through the I-pod.

Side: No
0 points

Ipods create a disruptive envrionment due to the way majority of people consume their content. It is consumed through headphones, usually while doing another task such as running, walking, working, thinking, sleeping, toileting, jumping, skipping, playing sport, exercising, computing, eating, crying, laughing etc. this disrupts the environment of reality by replacing that environment with an artificial one. One could argue that all music is disruptive in a way.. but I pods are way worse.

Side: Yes
BethanyVeltm(8) Disputed
1 point

A lot of people listen to music to purposely take themselves out of the real world. If anything, sometimes the natural environment distracts people. Listening to music from an iPod can actually help people concentrate on the task they are doing, for example going to the gym or even studying..personal experience.

Side: No
1 point

You have just clarified my point even further.. thankyou. Your argument is that the natural environment distracts people - the natural environment is literally a part of reality! So if the natural environment is not able to distract you due to an alternate reality.. then the IPod is disruptive. Which is the debate here - disruptive technology, NOT distractive.

Side: No
4 points

Ipods? What is this 2010 ?

Side: No
jaimewillson Clarified
0 points

iPods became the starting point for smart phones. If it wasn't for iPods back then, we wouldn't have music on our phones, or we might not have even invented apps or video on our smart phones.

Side: Yes
a1645888 Disputed
2 points

The iPod wasn't the starting point for smartphones - it was actually the Simon Personal Communicator, created by IBM 15 years before the release of the iPhone.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/worlds-first-smartphone-simon-launched-before-iphone-2015-6?r=US&IR;=T

Side: Yes
2 points

"A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market leading firms, products and alliances. The term was defined and phenomenon analyzed by Clayton M. Christensen beginning in 1995."

The Ipod served the same purpose as pre-existing technologies, such as Walkman's, Portable CD Players, etc. A new market and value network was NOT created when the iPod was released - it was merely an improvement to the existing market. Therefore, the iPod was not disruptive technology.

Side: No
2 points

I don't see the iPod as disruptive. Phones have become the most disruptive technology. They play music, allow access to the internet, games, movies, it is a camera and video recorder, also used for business.

iPod's were brought in to simply play music but never became an everyday distraction.

Side: No
jaimewillson Disputed
1 point

There is no difference from listening to music on your phone and your iPod. There is a great similarity between the phone and the iPod, and the phone causes just as much as a distraction. You change the song on your iPod, you are texting on the phone. You say the phone is disruptive- it is the same idea, the iPods are just as disruptive.

Side: Yes
BethanyVeltm(8) Disputed
3 points

if the iPod and phones are disruptive then anything is. Talking to people, being on the computer, staring at a fly.

Side: No
2 points

Disruptive technology would refer to kinds of technology that would stand in the way or even prevent people from taking on their activities in their daily lives. Technology such as phones and computers are considered in this category. I-pods are able to smooth us through these daily activities rather than prevent us from doing them. They help our work flow if anything. I pods are not a disruptive technology.

Side: No
jaimewillson Disputed
1 point

iPods work in the same way that phones do! We listen to music on our phones, and that is similarly disruptive. We change the song on our iPods, play card games on our iPods, just as we do on our phones and computers.

Side: Yes
2 points

the iPod allows people to listen to music anywhere at anytime and I think that's cool. Just because people use to zone out it makes it a distraction? It allows people to enter a world no matter where they are.

Side: No
jaimewillson Disputed
2 points

Whether you think it is cool or not, it is still a distraction. Yes, the iPod does allow people to enter another world, which is exactly why it is such a dangerous distraction. This technology allows people to dangerously become disconnected, which is why the iPod can be so harmful.

Side: Yes
BethanyVeltm(8) Disputed
2 points

if people are dumb enough to make it a distraction then it's their fault.

Side: No
2 points

i just really want to go eat lunch and listen to my lovely iPod

Side: No
jaimewillson Clarified
2 points

I do not understand how this is relevant so please gtfo thanks

Side: Yes
mattpratt123 Disputed
1 point

This point makes no argument to your side whatsoever. Listening to an IPod isn't a bad or demonic thing. We are simply arguing that listening to an IPod creates an alternate reality in our minds which is disruptive to our perception of the natural environment.

Side: Yes

It's your choice that you choose to listen to music on a device. You are solely responsible for the consequences of the decisions you make, the ipod, just does what it was meant to do.

Side: No

What is disruptive for you need not be for another.., it's just a device, you choose whether/how to use it.

Side: No