thus is a tangent from Andrei's thread on Twitter @ SxSWi. "why us the person in front if you more important than the person a million miles away?"
the assumption coming from a pre-digital culture is that the people with you ate more important than those away from you. I would like to suggest that in the digital cultural world that this distinction is blurted at beat or just outright arbitrary dependent on specific contextual queues. Personally I believe there is a balance we ate going to learn to strike, but to do that we have to put aside our presumptions and allow new and different things to happen. BTW, I am a lot less concerned about the example if people isn't media while a panel or speaker is going on, then I am about Andrei's example of people prioritizing their digital connections over those in front of them during 1-on-1 moments. But even then, I would allow for the possibility that someone can split their attention between the virtual & physical. To take a Buxtonism I don't think we have reached "G-d's Law" in terms of our abilities to attribute meaning and value to our virtual relationships. - dave ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
