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Jenny Odell: How To Do Nothing

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The Importance of Perspective in Technology

We're constantly looking at the world through this very like limited kind of single perspective when we're using all these different apps and technologies many times yeah. I think Street View is a great example of what you just said which is it um it it wants to appear sort of like a neutral picturing of of the present but it's obviously made out of photographs that were taken at a very specific timejust like any other photograph so they do end up getting a very specific type of perspective. It's almost as if those technologies are constantly trying to ground you only in the moment or kind of only an instant gratification and and only in a very specific perspective.

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