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Höhepunkte eines Interviews mit Adam Greenfield, der sich Phänomenen ubiquitären Computerisierens ("everyware") mit einer angenehm soziologisch gefärbten Brille nähert:
As to how we manage the presentation of self in a world where there is such easy slippage between our various masks, I simply don’t know. Dishonesty is the great lubricant without which any society rapidly becomes unbearable - imagine having to disclose your actual feelings about all your friends, relatives, neighbors and coworkers to them, in real time - and unfortunately, the advocates of technologically-driven universal transparency seem to persistently undervalue its utility as an aid to social cohesion.
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My own personal example has to do with Nike+.
(Das ist einsprechender, ähhh, informationssammelnder und -sendender Joggingschuh) .
Formerly very easy-going as a runner - a devotee of running as a kind of moving meditation and a space of pure relaxation - I have become quite compulsively competitive now that my performance statistics are captured and radiated to the World Wide Web. It’s no longer acceptable, somehow, that I’m forty-five seconds slower than my friend over the course of a mile, even though I’ve five long years older than him; it’s no longer entirely tolerable that anybody in my Nike+ orbit puts in more weekly miles than I do. And what’s more, I no longer run at all unless I have my Nike+ with me - why would I, when that would be an uncaptured and thus a “wasted” effort?
Interessant ist auch die Spannung zwischen den theoriefranzösisch und von medialen Robot-Overlord-Texten wie Terminator oder Matrix geprägten Fragen und den erfrischend differenzierungsfähigen Antworten.
As to how we manage the presentation of self in a world where there is such easy slippage between our various masks, I simply don’t know. Dishonesty is the great lubricant without which any society rapidly becomes unbearable - imagine having to disclose your actual feelings about all your friends, relatives, neighbors and coworkers to them, in real time - and unfortunately, the advocates of technologically-driven universal transparency seem to persistently undervalue its utility as an aid to social cohesion.
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My own personal example has to do with Nike+.
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Formerly very easy-going as a runner - a devotee of running as a kind of moving meditation and a space of pure relaxation - I have become quite compulsively competitive now that my performance statistics are captured and radiated to the World Wide Web. It’s no longer acceptable, somehow, that I’m forty-five seconds slower than my friend over the course of a mile, even though I’ve five long years older than him; it’s no longer entirely tolerable that anybody in my Nike+ orbit puts in more weekly miles than I do. And what’s more, I no longer run at all unless I have my Nike+ with me - why would I, when that would be an uncaptured and thus a “wasted” effort?
Interessant ist auch die Spannung zwischen den theoriefranzösisch und von medialen Robot-Overlord-Texten wie Terminator oder Matrix geprägten Fragen und den erfrischend differenzierungsfähigen Antworten.
