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22 responses to “Target Lounge”
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Interesting how fully half the people in that room already have their face attached to a display device. This Glass thing might just take off.
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It looks a little like the bar in Star Wars, but not as interesting a crowd.
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gary gumanow termed it Anti-Social Networking some years ago and has even exhibited some of the photos from this set –
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex] " Anti-Social Networking"… that’s a great neologism!
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isn’t it? :-))
thanks to gary nowadays i too shoot people on the street disappearing into screens.
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and here’s an interesting infographic based on data from Pew
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Er… sorry for the perhaps superficial comment: Steve, I like your striped shirt in flickr colors. Like it mucho.
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Merci…. and that shirt with pink buttons has some spanish franco uomo tag that has me worried
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex] — when you say Gary coined "anti-social networking" some years ago, when was that? I only see references to 2010, and I’m wondering if it pre-dates March 2006, with
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good question!
i’ve asked him.
he is in the computer field
and on LinkedIn 🙂 – http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gary-gumanow/6/904/85b
and is a world-class street photographer to boot.
he uses the term mostly wrt people in public who are isolated from their surroundings and communicating with people somewhere else. -
it’s the name of his set itself
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gumanow/sets/72157623564202905/and a couple of his public exhibitions in Austin
and interviews – http://www.alexcoghe.com/interview-with-gary-gumanow/"In the later part of the 20th century, people talked to each other face to face. This Anti-Social Networking project came out of a frustration; people showing up all over my photos talking on their phones, almost as if they were on stage. I found it fascinating that people were stand right next to each other, yet pulled away to another place, maybe on Facebook, Twitter, or browsing something on the Internet. Let’s say I take you out to dinner, and we both pull out our phones and start texting someone else? That is anti-social networking. Personally, I think we are doomed and I don’t see a way out of this behavior. I think it will only get worse."
Anti-Social Networking Photo Essay.
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Hi Steve. I’m watching your google talk right now. Fascinating. BTW, there is a sort of unwritten rule in photography, to not talk about your photos but to let them experience them. I don’t typically TALK about my photos to people. It might be obvious, but I’ve got a whole lot more to say on this topic but haven’t necessarily exposed this because of this.
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Ah, perhaps I misunderstood sceroplex when he said "gary gumanow termed it Anti-Social Networking some years ago". Now I see that he meant that you used the term aptly to describe the screen zombies addicted to their cyber-social lives.
I originally thought he was saying that you first coined the term "anti-social networking" and I was trying to ask if that pre-dated my use of it in March 2006. I have a strong suspicion that I was not the first to use it… but the claim (as I misunderstood it) that we know who did it first got me curious.
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call me Bharani 🙂
Bharani Padmanabhan MD PhD
Boston MAyeah, i was referring to the majority of the folks in your photo above
looking into their screens, which defeats the entire purpose of a conference gathering.i’m now waiting for photos of researchers in the meeting places Kahn designed into the Salk Institute, all sitting isolated from each other and efficiently staring into screens……
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the term officially hit the newspaper of record yesterday!
but with a different meaning……..http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/krugman-the-antisocial...
OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Antisocial Network
By PAUL KRUGMAN
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ooh, now I really want to know when the term was first used. Krugman’s summary reminds me I post I did from the recent BW article on dem bitcoins:
"I expected Bitcoins to remain in the background with all of the other anarchist crypto-chatter that makes up an essential substratum of modern network thinking. But Bitcoins didn’t go away. And I’m increasingly convinced there’s one thing that Bitcoins do that’s genuinely interesting. They decentralize trust.
It’s gold-bug thinking reinvented for an age of fluid transparency and instantaneous transactions. And as such it’s an excellent indicator of anxiety. Where you see Bitcoins in action you find a weird and heady mix of speculative angst, a fear of being left behind, and people who appear to have lost faith in institutions, who feel most left behind. These are people who’ll trade in purely arbitrary tokens, willing to forgo the comfort of banking systems for the weight of mathematics and the Internet behind it."
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgury] — sponsored by Target stores no less…
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson] Bitcoins can wait. I want to know Krugman’s reaction to the latest Estonian Opera. I felt the libretto could have been harder hitting in singling him out by name, along with a good leitmotif to convey the president’s feeling about him. Like whatever the Estonian equivalent is of a stone commander could break in demanding he renounce his Nobel prize to repent his Keynesian profligacy and arrogance. That would be easy in Italian but you would have to be Estonian Mozart or Wagner to pull that off so German might have been better. Still Italian is really the way to go…
Il Commendatore Hendrik :
Pentiti, Krugman cangia vita:
è l’ultimo momento!
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