Stare into the Light my Pretties / Jordan Brown / USA / 2017 / 2:08:00
We live in a world of screens. More of us would know this, if we look
up, and look around. The screens are everywhere, pervasive: Fingers
that are glued to the screen which are glued to the eyes which are
glued to the screen. We use them for work, play. But it’s much more
than that. The screens use us, too. How did we get here? And where’s
this journey leading us? What does that even look like? And is it what
we want? Is this culture’s technology changing us and our societies
for the better? Does it empower all of us—like it claims to—or does it
only empower a select few at the expense of the many? What’s the price
we pay to live in this pervasive electronic world? This era is
unprecedented, and perhaps never before has technology been so
prolific and shaped our lives so intimately. But there’s a dark side
we don’t talk about. Why is that? Is it because we’re too busy being
glued to the screen? Why do we shy away from questions about our
collective addiction? What’s lurking under the surface? Could it be
that with this era, the stakes have also never been so high that we’ve
got it all wrong?
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