More and more it seems that we “interface” rather than relate. Just watch people immersed in their screens, walking side by side with a friend but miles away mentally, texting someone else. Watch people in public places. They may be around people but they’re absorbed in their screens whatever the size.
What happens to us when we no longer relate but only interface?
This video by photographer Robbie Cooper in the New York Times shows us the intense face of total immersion in an interface. What happens to us when we no longer know how to immerse ourselves in real relationships with people … or God? Certainly there are business implications, but most importantly, what are the human implications?
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I strap a TV monitor on my chest
so that all who approach can see themselves
and respond appropriately.
Bill Knott’s 1983 “Crash Course” from the book Becos, Vintage
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