TED.com: Antisocial Cell Phone Behavior

This is a really short video from TED.com (under 4 minutes) on the implications of people always being connected with their phone. Packed into this short talk are some profound topics and assertions:

• The rise of the culture of availability
• An expectation of availability
• An obligation of availability
• Behaviors we use to hide our addiction to our phones
• How this deals with creating shared narratives
• “You are not as important as literally almost anything that could come through this device.”
• “Our reality is less interesting than the story we are going to tell about it later.”
• “People aren’t projecting identities, they are creating them.”
• The gospel tie-in: “Let’s make technologies that make people more human, and not less.”

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