User:Thelma

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How did contemporary technology influenced our body, mind, behavior and our network?

#20 crazy things people do to get wi-fi connection:

In their quest to get Wi-Fi Internet connectivity, people have done some pretty desperate things over the years. I've selected a few:

• 4. "Driven to the local coffee shop and purchased a muffin to use their wireless."
• 7. "I have plugged my laptop into a hospital Ethernet line because the wireless was down."
• 9. "Plugged into the back of a cash register."
• 11. "Turned someone's TV antenna into a wireless internet antenna."
• 12. "Logged into hotel conference rooms to get the connection for free."
• 14. "Plugged into electricity from the city of Seattle that was on a pole on the sidewalk, but only for a few minutes."
• 15. "Held my laptop out a window to get the Wi-Fi next door so I could send an important email."
• 16. "Sat outside an airport for 4 hours so I could use the free wireless across the street."
• 18. "Moved throughout my home because of connection problems, I found myself sitting in a ducky chair in my toddler's room because that is where I got the best connection."

Check the rest out here: [1]

#Tegenlicht documentary: ‘’Digitaal geheugenverlies’’ (Digital amnesia)

Our lives are continuously captured for ‘’later’’.. but is it? Digital files are vulnerable. We think that internet is a library, but it isn’t. It’s worrying that libraries are slowly whittled. (what happens with all those books?) While internet is also not permanent… so much of the web is already gone; they’re changing and coming all the time.

(As a light flashes, someone is uploading or downloading something)

[2]

#Tegenlicht documentary: ‘’‘’Hoe echt is echt?’’ (How real is real?)

What happens with the truth? Experiences you’ve gained cause of the media also mean something in the physical world. What’s real and what’s unreal in this digital era? ( is real = good, fake = bad, because you’re being cheated ??) But in the east of the world copy and original are experienced differently; Asia embraces digital technology way faster. Actually, we are the grumbling Westerners. We’re pretty naïve about what we call ‘real’.

Girl with the pearl?

#Tegenlicht documentary: ‘’Herovering van het nu’’ (Reconquest of the present)

We’re always ‘’ON’’ (line) and we’re continuously disturbed. Most of the times; we aren’t where we are. All technologies don’t help us to become more human, but to keep the dying market alive. Not to keep you and me in contact. ‘’They’’ are always between every interaction.

When I talk to someone, no one earns money with it. But when I talk trough my phone with a person, someone does.

We’re immigrants in the present. Everything is changing so fast. (analog and digital clock; we don’t follow the second-hand (?) anymore.. not moving through time; but from minute to minute) It becomes a serie of choices which we make; you click on this or you click on that. ON/OF? YES/NO? Or you just don’t click on it… [3]

Dan Rushkoff