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Are people even present in their own lives
Posted on 20. Apr, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
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It appears that the global obsession with sharing content that is either captured or dispersed via our mobile phones has reached such a level, that you kinda wonder whether people at ‘special events’ like this recent Arcade Fire concert at Coachella are even enjoying the ‘live’ moment themselves – or is publicising the fact that they are there to their network more important?
Is reality unrecognisable to us unless it’s filtered through a screen?
If we didn’t know better we’d think they were trying to capture the second coming at a religious gathering.
Where are we going with this? 24 hour a day ‘always-on’ video production of our own lives?
