Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Homogenized living

The mobile opens multilpe wormholes through our living. It brings work into personal life and vice versa. It brings every friend, family and acqaintance along to your secluded holiday spot, and with those people, it carries over the emotions, the stress, the thoughts and worries of each relationship. Or you can think about it inversely.

With my mobile phone I can travel through social time and space to meet colleagues, family, friends or whoever, nomatter where I am and what I do, and nomatter where they are and what they do. My social universe becomes condensed, compressed to the singularity of the moment; of any moment when I make or take a call or message.

Nomatter what role you are supposed to enact and where you are, you can be all things at all places all the time. You can be the mother and the manager at the same time; you can cook dinner and soothe a troubled friend simultaneously. The house is the office and the meeting room is the bedroom. Living is thus homogenized.