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TED.com: Antisocial Cell Phone Behavior

Last Updated May 4, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

This is a really short video from TED.com (under 4 minutes) on the implications of people always being connected with their phone. Packed into this short talk are some profound topics and assertions:

  • The rise of the culture of availability
  • An expectation of availability
  • An obligation of availability
  • Behaviors we use to hide our addiction to our phones
  • How this deals with creating shared narratives
  • “You are not as important as literally almost anything that could come through this device.”
  • “Our reality is less interesting than the story we are going to tell about it later.”
  • “People aren’t projecting identities, they are creating them.”
  • The gospel tie-in: “Let’s make technologies that make people more human, and not less.”

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