Hi Dave, Wanted to let you know your comment really rang a bell for me:
"*People are lonely, not b/c they are wearing headphones. People are lonely b/c we have disintegrated the extended and now the nuclear family and replaced it with materialism and false ideologies*." I wonder how we as interaction designers can influence culture to move beyond materialism and false ideologies and really connect as people once were. Love to hear any thoughts people have around this! Cheers! David On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:27 AM, dave malouf <dave....@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it is a false correlation to assume that technology caused the > problem. Way too easy. B/c there are tons of cases where technology > has been used to break isolation. Look at what Twitter and YouTube > have done. Look up the work of Michael Wesch on YouTube and you'll > see who groups of people finding each other, not hiding out. > > People are lonely, not b/c they are wearing headphones. People are > lonely b/c we have disintegrated the extended and now the nuclear > family and replaced it with materialism and false ideologies. > > So w/ that in mind, I appreciate your POV, but I feel it is not a > complete story, nor fully representative of the complexities facing > people today. > > -- dave > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47301 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- "Making peoples lives easier daily... since 1969" w: http://weatherdude.wordpress.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
