Submitted by David Vogt on June 17, 2006 - 9:44am.
I’ve been percolating a specific post about imposed morality in the digital age for a long while now. My ideas are still weak, but some banter following Mark Pesce’s Vidfest presentation has provoked me to serve them before their time.
Mark was promoting the concept of the mobile phone being the ultimate undiscovered social networking device. As consumers we’re being encouraged to think of the mobile phone as a communications device or a camera or a game platform, but what we really want according to Mark, and are continuously hacking towards, is a social networking agent. Mobile phones are increasingly sophisticated portable multimedia computers wandering around with us doing nothing 99% of the time. What would happen if they applied a few of many spare cycles to quietly recording everything we do, everywhere we go, everyone we meet, and to continuously applying this information to mapping our social networking universe in constructive ways? The raw thought has some tasty potentials that I’m sure I’ll overcook sometime soon, but not now.
