look up: how our screens have impacted life as we know it
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LOOK How our screens have impacted life as we know it
UP
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BY: Carli Bianchi
Of American adults own a smartphone
56% Image: Jason howie, creative commons via flickr,2013
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SMARTPHONE
n.Noun 1. A cell phone that includes features of a pda, such as applications for reading and sending e-mail, maintaining a calendar, and browsing the web
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The average user checks their cell phone…
110 Times a day
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Often with no purpose at all… [2]
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40% 28% Have social media apps on their phones
Use Social media apps
daily
Of smartphone owners Of smartphone owners
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-Ben Spencer
“looking at their phone is the first thing many people do each day, and it’s also
the last”
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Reaching for a device becomes so that we start to forget there is a reason, a good reason, to sit still with our thoughts. -‐
NATURAL
- Sherry Turkle
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The Good
THE BAD
THE FUTURE
But how does this affect us?
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The Good
Smartphones keep us connected 24/7 &
Overcome the boundaries of distance
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Smartphones help to OPTOMIZE Our
time
Make a little communication go
a long way
&
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Soon enough, we’ll be able to live vicariously alongside anyone we choose at any moment of their life -Kyle Chayka
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The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values . This is a good thing because it challenges us to figure out what they really are.”
- Sherry Turkle
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We’re becoming distant and distracted
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Multicommunicating:
Where no one person gets personal attention for long.
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We forget to unplug, when we are
with others
FACE-TO-FACE
We live in a technological universe in
which we are always communicating. And yet
we have sacrificed conversation for more
connection.
-Sherry Turkle
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THE FUTURE
So WHAT
IS NEXT?
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As the widespread
popularity of smartphones continues to grow …
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We imagine the ideal
smartphone
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A bio-electronic device using a neural implant
power from our own body chemistry
At that point, we could potentially be connected to the Internet, and
hence each other,
at all times.
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