Digital Shift: Tomorrow’s Relationship and Ideals
Kristy Richards, and Daniel Bluzer-Fry present a synopsis of their talk at SXSW looking investigating what effects ‘game changing’ technologies may have on who we are and our relationships and ideals in the future.
Technology and the rapid pace of innovation is having a profound effect upon all of our lives. The positive draw of the benefits of tech is hugely enticing.
It enables us to constantly gain access to information, and find efficiency gains in the ways we manage our time and relationships, but conversely it has also meant that we are often distracted, as we spread our attention thinly, multitasking across numerous spaces: Tinder, Facebook, email, WhatsApp…
This situation is set to intensify, as digital spaces become more sophisticated and immersive, heightening our enjoyment.
Bring on the singularity, replacement of government by the Sillicone Valley 1% internet monopolists (without the inconvenience of welfare, health and education to deal with) and the corporate surveillance society. But, hey, that’s disruption for you.
We’re the turkeys who vote for Christmas.