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> NASA Force technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery.

Am I an idiot or does their leading sentence make absolutely no sense?

tiberoneon Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'

> Students can be trusted to obey a simple "no phones in class" rule.

Anybody who has spent even a day teaching knows how wildly inaccurate this statement is

tiberoneon From Braun T3 to Apple's iPod (2024)

not really a lot to chew on here. a better read might be this interview with Jony Ive about Rams’s influence, including the T3:

https://rams-foundation.org/magazine/interviews/jonathan-ive...

tiberoneon From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban

generally speaking I don’t think they were ever really allowed, but if you tried to “take them away” the kids would just put it in their pocket and not give it up. and that was it.

the difference now is that we have things like the magnetic pouches so students physically can’t use them. the rule is the same, but now it’s actually enforceable.