Communication Art...

French artist Jean-Luc Cornec in the Frankfurt Museum of Communications made sheep out of old telephone parts, called Bleep Bleep Sheep.  These date back to 1996... but doesn't this make you think about how we've changed, communications-wise?  Africa has more cell phone users than the U.S., Australia has more cell phones than people,  and the new iPhone due out this summer may alter all in becoming a main way to access the internet.

Perhaps this image, left, is the more artistic version of modern communications that conveys a sense of how we've changed?

The new iPhone might become as social changing as Steve Job's 1977 invention of the personal computer.  We'll be getting them in '08 starting with the new release this summer. 

Vista sucks - no wonder Apple's market share of PCs over $1,000 are up 66% and year-over-year sales for Macs are up 50%.

 Within 5 years, everything that matters to you will be available on a device that fits on your belt or in your purse -- 80% of the world population will carry a mobile internet device and smart phones will make personal computers irrelevant.  Everything you do online will be tracked and information will be niched and tailored and this will decrease privacy.  This, from the ten top tech trends via Dan Blank.

As Robert Murdoch says, "The idea isn't to find the best technology, but the people who will know how to optimally exploit it."

Ah. The art of communication.  And, to think, academics are now studying texting as a new language, complete with its own rules of syntax, etc.

Image above right, via Paul Schmeizer; image, left, via textually.org

Comments

[Janet]

I finally got a cell phone last week. I love computers, but I generally don't like talking on the phone, and I REALLY don't want to be available all the time. Fortunately it can be turned off.

[allison]

I left the house last night w/o my cell phone and had a moment of panic. What if something happened - I wouldn't be able to call immediately! But I thought back to the pre-cellular days and realized I would be OK!!! Such dependence is a little unnerving to me. I'm not really on my phone that much and I don't like calls while I'm driving, but I sure want to have it with me.