{"id":1280,"date":"2009-03-13T05:31:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T10:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2009-03-13T05:31:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T10:31:19","slug":"things-to-ponder-reclaiming-the-space-rough-type-nicholas-carrs-blog-realtime-kills-real-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/13\/things-to-ponder-reclaiming-the-space-rough-type-nicholas-carrs-blog-realtime-kills-real-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Things To Ponder: Reclaiming The Space :Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Realtime kills real space"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Call me a Luddite<\/a> but I think its time to fight back!
\nNot by isolating ourselves and not using the web and all its gifts but by trying to one up the web and making our real world interactions better. Trying to find the kinds of interactions that would flow naturally from using the web and living a connected life.
\nThis is a new category , “Reclaiming Space”. trying to find the ways that would help make the web a complement , and not a substitute to real connections!<\/p>\n

A government survey conducted last year concluded that eighty-two per cent of those between the ages of ten and twenty-nine use cell phones, and it is hard to overstate the utter absorption of the populace in the intimate portable worlds that these phones represent. A generation is growing up using their phones to shop, surf, play video games<\/a>, and watch live TV<\/a>, on Web sites specially designed for the mobile phone<\/a>. \u201cIt used to be you would get on the train with junior-high-school<\/a> girls and it would be noisy as hell with all their chatting,\u201d Yumiko Sugiura, a journalist who writes about Japanese youth culture<\/a>, told me. \u201cNow it\u2019s very quiet\u2014just the little tapping of thumbs.\u201d
\nRealtime<\/a>, you see, doesn’t just change the nature of time, obliterating past and future. It annihilates real space<\/a>. It removes us from three-dimensional space and places us in the two-dimensional<\/a> space of the screen – the “intimate portable world” that increasingly encloses us. Depth is the lost dimension.<\/strong>
\nRough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Realtime kills real space<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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