Brianne Garcia
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“Forgetting one’s phone causes a sort of existential crisis. Having to navigate without a maps app, eating a delicious lunch and not being able to post a photograph, having a witty thought without being able to tweet forces reflection on how different our modern lives really are. To spend a moment of boredom without a glowing screen, perhaps while waiting in line at the grocery store, can propel people into a This American Life–worthy self-exploration about how profound the experience was.” —The IRL Fetish – The New Inquiry (via s-m-i)
Was reminded of this when the Amazon cloud services crashed this weekend and, GASP!, Instagram, Pinterest and a host of other sites/services went down. I am especially interested in this entire idea of “getting away” as simply closing the laptop and turning off the phone. Funny how we can take a vacation without going anywhere.
(via s-m-i)
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