Thursday, July 7, 2011

Texters, The Photo Series by Nick Bilton

- http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=813367&f=24

The main idea: how we have falling to the world of technology, the main one the hand held devices called cell phones. People are found all over the place on these devices, in the morning at night, any type of weather, and so on. They're just addictive, people on the streets pull out their cell phones to do any and everything with them as it says, "We've all done it...connected to something other than the world around us (Bilton, Texters)."

A man named Joseph Holmes an award-winning professional photographer decided to document this new way of life. He had taken photos of many New Yorkers who were face down into their mobile devices. He probably had taken so many photos that it was overwhelming (and they were most likely not of the same one person). But with in two months Joseph Holmes had to edit down what may have been hundreds of photos, to 26 total.

Many of the photos displaying sites that we see in our everyday life. As talked about in the article, it went from a woman texting in the rain, businessman in a park, to a woman almost frozen in time looking into her cell phone.

Then I went on to read four of the comments made relating to the article. And one read, "We have "not" all done it...I live in the world around me (Bilton, Texters)." That comment may be correct in some cases, but everyone if not all the time, falls to the new technology: the cell phone. We have even been granted the name the technological generation (or something like that).

What I still ask, is how did our society come to this?Also would there ever be a possible way to break away?
Posted by Maya Wilson at 5:46 AM

2 comments:

Chavon Hampton said...

I agree with you and i think that it's completely unacceptable. I believe that our society has developed this terrible habit by allowing technology to control what we do and think. With all the new inventions such as ipad's and every version of the iphone, society had tricked people into believing that we need these gadgets in our to go on with our lives. There are people out there who must have every mac item that comes out and it's very sad.

A possible solution to this problem is to realize that life is more than the materialistic items that you own. We need to spend more time with our families and learn how to do things for our selves. If you ask your parents they'll tell you that all of these gadgets have changed our society for the worste. My mom always tells me about how they had so much fun making up their own games and bonding with her family. Today the only person that can get this message to everyone is the youth. We have to tell ourselves to put these gadgets down. All it takes is 1!

July 9, 2011 at 6:06 PM
Rachel S. said...

I agree with Chavon. We need to stop allowing technology to control our lives, and we definitely need to stop being so materialistic.

However, it seems to me that the issue doesn’t exactly lie with the technology itself but, rather, how we use it. As one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, America has almost unlimited potential for technological advancement. We have already seen the positive impact that technology has had in the areas of health, education, engineering, etc. However, a large portion of the technology seems to be used for things like texting or creating new apps for phones, things that may make money for large companies, but which do not benefit our society. Earlier this year, I learned that an effective over-the-counter malaria medicine was discontinued simply because it didn’t make enough money (even though studies showed that it would help to lessen the possibility of death from malaria symptoms). It’s depressing to see technologies that are useful to society being repressed, while games and apps that have few (if any) social implications are highly publicized, simply because the latter makes more money. People should take a break from Angry Birds, and start using technology in a way that will prove to be an actual benefit to our society, and our personal selves.

July 10, 2011 at 4:24 PM

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