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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