{"id":18256,"date":"2013-07-01T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=9514"},"modified":"2013-07-01T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T19:05:01","slug":"no-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/01\/no-words\/","title":{"rendered":"No words"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the NY Times, Nick Bilton talks<\/a> about photographs becoming a ubiquitous, disposable form of communication:<\/p>\n

Photos, once slices of a moment in the past \u2014 sunsets, meetings with friends, the family vacation \u2014 are fast becoming an entirely new type of dialogue. The cutting-edge crowd is learning that communicating with a simple image, be it a picture of what\u2019s for dinner or a street sign that slyly indicates to a friend, \u201cHey, I\u2019m waiting for you,\u201d is easier than bothering with words, even in a world of hyper-abbreviated Twitter posts and texts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently text messaging is in (slight) decline, while SnapChat (y’know, self-destructing junk shots for the kids) is reputedly worth $800+ million<\/a>. This is the part where Old Man Nack officially feels he has no idea what’s going on.
\nThere’s got to be some great Orwell quote about losing the language to make sense of experiences, but, eh, who wants to read<\/em> all that?
\nElsewhere Dave Pell muses<\/a> about how imaging can separate us from experiences:<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve ceded many of our remembering duties (birthdays, schedules, phone numbers, directions) to a hard drive in the cloud. And to a large extent, we\u2019ve now handed over our memories of experiences to digital cameras. […]
\nWe no longer take any time to create an internal memory of an event or an experience before seeing, filtering, and sharing a digital version of it. We remember the photo, not the moment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a world of social media, we can all exist in a droll, above-it-all sugary crust (like Seinfeld talking<\/a> about how in a cab, everything on the other side of the plexiglass, no matter how dangerous, is amusing & unreal). It’s a good time to remember that Facebook likes, like design, won’t save the world<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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