Paul Jacobson

Tag: isolation

  • “We’re a generation of smartphones and dumb people”

    “We’re a generation of smartphones and dumb people”

    One was to describe the world we live in today is as a “contradiction”. We have so many ways to connect with each other and share our lives and yet the primary ways we do that also isolate us from meaningful human contact. The instrument of our isolation is also the device we use to…

  • Have your drone walk your dog

    http://vimeo.com/95078536 This is amusing but it also strikes me as a bit of a sad regression. Surely walking the dog benefits the human as well as the dog? If you get your drone to walk the dog, you’re basically abdicating a very human activity which has the benefit of reintegrating the human into the immediate…