May 9, 2006
Digital memories overwrite real thing
Camera phones let anyone capture the moment -- but they risk missing the experience. A thought provoking piece by Steven Barrie-Anthony for the LA Times.
... "Photographing the moment is only the beginning. Next stop is dissemination, in which that experience, that memory, is transferred, at the push of a button to other cellphones, to computers, to any of the several dozen media sharing website.
... Remembrances are no longer ambiguous collages of past and present experiences but rather the well-defined digital records sitting in front of us. We don't close our eyes to invoke memory; we open them wide to decipher the proof, the truth. It's clarity of one sort, though maybe blindness of another.
... "We're a culture in transition," Gergen says. "We thrive on the notion of authenticity, individuality, interiority. At the same time, there's something isolating about that as well. The techno-civilization is moving us into connectivity very rapidly.
The danger, I guess, is that we'll watch everything change through our viewfinders and then get so carried away with sharing that we forget to reflect."
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