> ... no one in the public had any clue what we were all talking about.
Unfortunately, most of them still don't.
You're right that "everyone has a device in their hands that they can touch, and know is related to this" but most of them still don't understand the significance of it -- if they are even aware of it at all!
My girlfriend is, I think, fairly representative of the "younger generation", for example. She's 21, not really that "techy" (despite having an iPad and iPhone), and is constantly using Facebook, Snapchat, and probably a handful of other apps that I've never even heard of. The first she became aware of any of this was after Tim Cook's "A Message to Our Customers". That evening, she was sitting on the couch on her phone and asked me, "Did you see this message thing from Apple?" My initial response was, "How did you hear about it?". "It's all over Facebook."
She knows, now, that it's an important issue to me. I've explained it to her as much as she cared to listen and she's seen and asked about the multitude of EFF stickers on my laptops (after seeing someone on TV with some of the same stickers).
She doesn't really care that much, though, and, as far as I know, pretty much none of her friends (all within a couple years of her age) do either. As long as they get what they want, they're content.
It doesn't affect them directly and so it gets none of their attention. Most of them have other, more important (to them) things that do affect them directly and, because of that, are much more relevant to their daily lives.
Unfortunately, most of them still don't.
You're right that "everyone has a device in their hands that they can touch, and know is related to this" but most of them still don't understand the significance of it -- if they are even aware of it at all!
My girlfriend is, I think, fairly representative of the "younger generation", for example. She's 21, not really that "techy" (despite having an iPad and iPhone), and is constantly using Facebook, Snapchat, and probably a handful of other apps that I've never even heard of. The first she became aware of any of this was after Tim Cook's "A Message to Our Customers". That evening, she was sitting on the couch on her phone and asked me, "Did you see this message thing from Apple?" My initial response was, "How did you hear about it?". "It's all over Facebook."
She knows, now, that it's an important issue to me. I've explained it to her as much as she cared to listen and she's seen and asked about the multitude of EFF stickers on my laptops (after seeing someone on TV with some of the same stickers).
She doesn't really care that much, though, and, as far as I know, pretty much none of her friends (all within a couple years of her age) do either. As long as they get what they want, they're content.
It doesn't affect them directly and so it gets none of their attention. Most of them have other, more important (to them) things that do affect them directly and, because of that, are much more relevant to their daily lives.