Locative Media

Technologies have done a few things in relation to space and the community that have changed culture and accessibility. For starters the internet allows people to travel virtually to anywhere on the entire planet. I personally feel that this is both good and bad. For exploratory and curiousity reasons its a good thing. It allows people to learn more about the world around them. Although its benificiall to be able to explore space in such a fashion I think that its also a bad thing. Rather than going out and seeing the world for ones self I feel that most people are satisfied enough with just looking at it from a pc monitor which is kind of sad. When talking about community similar ideas apply. Yes the internet is a great tool for quickly bringing people together to share things and to be in communication with each other, but I feel we are to dependent of it. Am I saying we should all start mailing each other the old fashion way, no of course not; but the fact that we have job interviews and business meetings over the internet is just plain silly to me. Humans loose that level of interpersonal communication when they do everything over the internet. So the question is then; where is the happy balance in technologies where it remains healthy for the users? I'm not quite sure. -Mike Markloff