Technology, Art and Society

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Mobility is accelerated when people create common languages with which to deal with strangers. Language itself has been and still is, the main communication interface. Border language has always been the social melting pot and great empires have many frontiers. (Page 146)

The only time that is important is the individual time, sold to us as a privatized time in full harmony with the whole, thanks to technologies and management techniques. (Page 149)

"When consuming an object, one consumes them all," said Richard Stivers, because of theunification provided by the interface, only one truly reflects all the others. (Page 154)

Digital language, the main driver of the modern importance of the interface, is imperative, mainly for "security" reasons. (Page 154)

Any type of advertising associated with that which is portable has been dominated since the nineteenth century by the idea of ​​the "lifestyle". (Page 168)

1.5 Biographies of the portable

The car not only represents the perfect metaphor for the new world of mobility of the twentieth century, but also as such, achieves an unparalleled degree of standardization in the user interface. (Page 170)

Portability is inherent to the lifestyle, consubstantial while agile and productive. - talking about the radio / bag (page 174)

With the application of electricity to many of the personal utensils of everyday use, marketing wanted to see a possible revolution in the way individuals were to manage their time. - talking about hygiene (p.175)

The most obvious example of the direct relationship between expansionism, mobility, portability and the standard is money. (Page 177)

It obliged the user to an individual reception and discarded collective listening at a stroke. - talking on the headset (page 183)

Allowing young people to escape from adult surveillance while continuing to live with them. - speaking of the Walkman (page 188)

Our times and spaces make us more productive: there is more to assimilate and more things to say (page 192)

It is interesting that the term video (game) defines an attitude of activity and control over the medium - talking about video games (page 200)

And it was the street that defined the uses of the most influential (maybe) personal technology of history. - talking about the laptop (page 212)

Technology has not made us what we are: it takes advantage of what we are. - talking about the laptop (page 213)

But above all it was the mouse that made the computer an instrument of individual use. - talking about screens and interfaces (page 224)

A new visual culture was being born. The world presents itself to the eyes within a visual space bounded and transilluminated mechanically. The screen became the fundamental transmission vehicle. - talking about screens and interfaces (page 225)

Undoubtedly, the diffusion of the Internet around the world, has made this medium the referential technology of connectivity and mobility. Our data and documents, our correspondence, our access to information, are no longer associated with a physical place. - talking about the Internet (page 235)

2 Chosen Passages

"Mobility appears as the perfect panacea to camouflage a situation in full transformation and to fill a social life that must seek new horizons." (P.19)

"While modern capitalism was clearly constituted by a strict division of labor and housing, propelled by a middle class eager to maintain intimate independence, it is curious how this dynamic has gradually acquired an inverse direction." 49-50)

"Public space thus becomes a scenario in which the role of each actor is secret (or at any rate unknown) but at the same time attractive: it is private, but constructed in a way that generates public expectation, by becoming" coherent " Consumption or lifestyle. "(P.110)

"Technology has not made us what we are: it takes advantage of what we are." (Page 213)

"Undoubtedly, the spread of the Internet around the world, has made this medium the referential technology of connectivity and mobility theology. Our data and documents, our correspondence, our access to information, are no longer associated with a physical place "(p.235)

3 Critical Commentary

How to synthesize so much information in such a short commentary? As Jaron Lernier would say in his books: "Who owns the future? - You are not a gadget. " I think this is undoubtedly the great unanswered question that left me amused when I finished reading "Me, Mycell and I" by Jorge Luis March.

I’d dare to say that the beginning of this history of the public space, lies between the end of the s.XIX and begining of the XX. As John Ruskin said in 1907: "Home is a place of peace and refuge." The world was a plot too difficult to manage. The home was a whole, a family nucleus.

After the IIWW,we found ourselves face to face with the generation commonly known as the "Baby Boom" generation or the "Liberated Youth". This generation was marked by a great social revolution, a great liberation denominated "Flower Power" in which peace, love and free sex ruled over all. The Beatles, Grease, Woodstock or the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations are prominent factors of that era, such as is portrayed in the film "Across the Universe" by Julie Taymor which gives a fairly accurate image of the 1950s. These social changes are also marked by the appearance of new TCI such as radio and TV, intended for a high middle class, that radically changed the concept of the home. From here on, houses began to have several different living spaces such as the living room, the meeting point and huge "family bond" area thanks to the new TCI, as well as the appearance of the bedroom used as a personal living space, first step on the scale of the Individualization of the home. Also note the appearance of appliances, especially the phone, technology clearly used as a socializing tool for women. This "age" is what has influenced us to this day.

We can also define a second social revolution,