Smartphone zombies of Londen is an exciting experiment by a local photographer which aims to show the dark side of smartphone addiction! You can find these shocking Smartphone statistics online to understand how popular they are these days in comparison to other technologies.
As Clemson’s chair of human-centered computing, Juan Gilbert has lead teams of students over the last 10 years to create an online voting system accessible at home or on the go that will be more accurate, have increased verification and make voting more accessible to people with disabilities by offering mobile and voice-command options.
The system will be downloadable via computer, tablet or smartphone, and be significantly cheaper and easier to use than conventional electronic voting machines…
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Dutch photographer Ritzo ten Cate tells us about his unique project!
It started with Pokemon Go
In the summer of 2016 masses of people started playing Pokemon Go. I started playing myself and.. got lost in my own hometown??, throwing Pokeballs at Pidgeots, Raticates and Pikachu’s. I went back home, still being in shock of me getting lost. I felt like a zombie being total unaware of my surroundings and my own presence. I decided to dive into it and started taking pictures of players. After a few rounds on the streets I moved on to taking street photographs of smartphone zombies – in general. The series called Caught in the App emerged.
?What worries me?
People nowadays live several lives in one. One in the real world, on the streets, at tables, in bed. And many online. Smartphones make it easy to travel permanently between these worlds. To warp. This permanent travelling between world worries me. It causes traffic accidents. It distracts us. It makes us dismindful, which makes us feel tired. It disconnects us. And maybe the most worrying: it desocializes us (according to research of MIT-professor Sherry Turkle) and we should even worry about attachment problems facing our children and long term consequences involved. And: suicide! San Diego State’s prof Jean Twenge proved direct correlations between screens / likes and depression and suicide!? ?And did I mention physical consequences like text neck and obese? Text neck is the term used to describe neck pain and damage sustained from looking down at your phone. This can lead to other conditions like kyphosis, commonly associated with adolescents due to the poor postures held by looking down at technological devices. In some cases, kyphosis surgery is required to correct the issue. We can’t let our phones have these consequences on our physical abilities!
