Reading Jan Chipchase (a mixture of anthropology, researcher and world traveller) on his thoughts and ideas in interaction design and communication related to the Iran revolution, utilizing privacy and technology.

The article draws information from a recent international research study, and references, concerning different socio-cultural and location in a non-western context. Places such as Tibet, Mongolia, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. However, what caught my attention was the brief mention about a pseudo-technophobe:

8. “Increasingly the choice of whether to adopt, or opt-in to a technology is one of whether to opt-out of society.”

The disconnection between human and the interwebs are propelling us towards, what exactly? A community now suffering a society identity crisis? Are we as a social species inhaling a larger slice of comprehension and mindthink, or, doubtfully so, a wider berth of apathy?

Society, Not Included