Sitting in the park yesterday and pondering the world, I couldn't help notice all the people tinkering with their mobile phones and snapping away at the view of Alamo Square.
Who was experiencing the real world of a Windy Sunday afternoon in San Francisco and who was experiencing something else, through their technology? Put another way, what's the most important way of capturing the fact of your visit to the park? A sit on the grass with a book and a friend, to be lived in the moment and captured in your memories? Or some electronic record of the visit?
The answer, of course, should be a little bit of both.
I worry a little bit when I go someplace new/interesting/beautiful that instead of experiencing it, I reach to my cameraphone. My modern technological instinct is that I won't get the gratification of going to this place *unless* I capture it in photograph and wait for the flickr/twitter/facebook comments to roll in.
Why can't I just inhabit the space in the moment?
Spot on.
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