Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey Lluis, I completely agree with you. We have summer interns that arrive every May and leave every August. This year I noticed that they hardly interacted when outside as a group; all of them were engrossed in their smart phones and no one was talking to one another or even watching where they were walking.? Cheers, Mitch =========== Website: http://exploratorius.us/ On Aug 28, 2013, at 03:31 PM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com> wrote: > Herbert, Gerry, Philippe, Jayanand, Jim H., Steve, George, Nathan, Ted, > Mitch > > Thank you very much to all for looking and your comments, the fact is in > my opinion that the smartphones has generated a "new culture", I think > that it is no important what are doing the people with it, communicating, > playing, looking pictures..... what is happen is a isolating attitude, > probably many people is no more used to be alone with his inner thoughts, > in silence. It is too boring?. I have said in another list that it seems > that our society has panic to be alone with our inner thoughts, first at > all was the music everywhere, stores, stations, waiting rooms, elevators > .... Maybe the humans has lost the ability to be in silence, reading, > thinking or dreaming... > > Yes that's true that they are fantastic tools, do you imagine when we was > children in the school that someone has tall us that in the future we will > have a tool for look and communicate worldwide and that we will have a > tool for put questions and it have all the responses? .... When we was a > child we ask our Mother/Dad or Grandpa, today is Google. This is wonderful > if we don't lost the real communication abilities. > > Cheers > Lluis > > > > > > El 28/08/2013, a las 07:22, Herbert Kanner escribi?: > >> I like them both, but the first one perhaps carries the message about >> people going through life staring at the screens of their cell phones. >> I used to see people reading books or magazines while waiting in a >> doctor's office. Now they are all staring at their cell phones. That >> includes me, except that it's an iPod and I'm not communicating; I'm >> playing Sudoku. >> Herbert Kanner >> kanner at acm.org >> >> 650-326-8204 >> Question authority and the authorities will question you. >> On Aug 27, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at >> gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi my friends, >>> I'm back and I will try to respond and comment the many messages I've >>> found. As some of you already know I'm collecting pictures about this >>> topic, this Summer I've been dedicated mainly to family pictures and >>> enjoying my grand children, but if I see one image I can't resists, I >>> would appreciate your opinions about these two images of the same >>> couple, but their different attitudes in everyone has decided me post >>> both, what do you think? Thank you very much in advance for looking and >>> your c&c will be welcome. Both with Leica M8, old Summilux 50. >>> Communication or In communication >>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Miscellaneous/20130824_5054BW04_1PS_BN.jpg.html> >>> Intimate In communication >>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Miscellaneous/20130824_5055NBW04BN_PS.jpg.html> >>> Please view large, thanks >>> Saludos cordiales >>> Lluis >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information