Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? | Idea Channel [PBS]

Can you live without your phone?

We’ve all become pretty attached to our cellular devices: it’s a GPS, a camera, a game console, a social media portal… and half a million other things, all in our pocket! From concerts to meals to our pets, we process and experience the world through our phone.

But as we see in so many mobile phone ads, the representations of these moments (whether its instagrams, foursquare check ins or Facebook shares) seem to be taking over and replacing the experience itself.

In this brave new world is the mobile phone a tool, or a filter through which we experience a new reality?

Dec 09 2012

The Smartphone Cycle

(vía Times New Geek)

Source: timesnewgeek.blogspot.com

Nov 29 2012

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Mobile Relationship

(vía Bonkers World)

Nov 19 2012

Study Finds Nearly 50 Percent of Drivers Under 30 Access the Web While Driving

A report from insurance company State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance, the largest seller of auto coverage in the country, says that an astounding 48 percent of drivers aged between 18 and 30 access the Internet while driving!