Comments on: Crowded Isolation http://humancipate.com/crowded-isolation/ Connect, Live Free . . . Be! Thu, 20 May 2010 13:02:36 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Geuka http://humancipate.com/crowded-isolation/comment-page-1/#comment-1672 Geuka Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:15:56 +0000 http://humancipate.com/crowded-isolation/#comment-1672 @deniseD I've witnessed that phone phenomenon in traffic too! I'll buy that working bit . . . I actually get some work done in coffee shops every once and a while too! Thanks for sharing @Malena Thanks Sis! That was a fun day for sure. @deniseD
I’ve witnessed that phone phenomenon in traffic too! I’ll buy that working bit . . . I actually get some work done in coffee shops every once and a while too! Thanks for sharing

@Malena
Thanks Sis! That was a fun day for sure.

]]> By: Malena http://humancipate.com/crowded-isolation/comment-page-1/#comment-1664 Malena Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:30:37 +0000 http://humancipate.com/crowded-isolation/#comment-1664 Ok! I confess, i thought it would be so cool to work with my brother in a coffee shop; my big mega brain brother. and it was. but yes, we were working hard at tasks! shoot, starting the computers and getting coffee already soaked 30 minutes of our power hour. now, i think the issue here is: due to technology we're constantly bluring our work with our play, which results in a disastrous unproductivity on both ends. now, i'm trying to either make my work play, or to really focus when i work work, and open my life for real, connected socializing and discovery when i'm not dashing off emails. that day, i realized, i'll just keep it real: and come to the cafe to do what's best: laugh, ask some questions, exchange some numbers. seeing my brother in a rare tango with facebook was priceless though, Malena Ok! I confess, i thought it would be so cool to work with my brother in a coffee shop; my big mega brain brother. and it was. but yes, we were working hard at tasks!

shoot, starting the computers and getting coffee already soaked 30 minutes of our power hour.

now, i think the issue here is: due to technology we’re constantly bluring our work with our play, which results in a disastrous unproductivity on both ends. now, i’m trying to either make my work play, or to really focus when i work work, and open my life for real, connected socializing and discovery when i’m not dashing off emails.

that day, i realized, i’ll just keep it real: and come to the cafe to do what’s best: laugh, ask some questions, exchange some numbers.

seeing my brother in a rare tango with facebook was priceless though,
Malena

]]> By: DeniseD http://humancipate.com/crowded-isolation/comment-page-1/#comment-1619 DeniseD Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:40:38 +0000 http://humancipate.com/crowded-isolation/#comment-1619 Geuka, I think we see the Techno-cocoon at its finest when people walk through crowded places or are at an airport, or restaurant for instance and text or talk on the phone THE ENTIRE TIME! I think that's when the fear/rejection monkey rears its head and people use technology to say to others "yeah, I know people, lots of people, look I'm talking/texting them now. I am not alone. I could be here with somebody if I wanted to." At a coffee shop though, I think a lot of people aren't talking caus' they're busy working - I know that's usually the case with me. Geuka, I think we see the Techno-cocoon at its finest when people walk through crowded places or are at an airport, or restaurant for instance and text or talk on the phone THE ENTIRE TIME!

I think that’s when the fear/rejection monkey rears its head and people use technology to say to others “yeah, I know people, lots of people, look I’m talking/texting them now. I am not alone. I could be here with somebody if I wanted to.” At a coffee shop though, I think a lot of people aren’t talking caus’ they’re busy working – I know that’s usually the case with me.

]]> By: Geuka http://humancipate.com/crowded-isolation/comment-page-1/#comment-1600 Geuka Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:22:20 +0000 http://humancipate.com/crowded-isolation/#comment-1600 Great points Denise!! Thank you for sharing! Do you think that fear and/or rejection influence people to choose the Techno-coocoon (as I put it) over the unpredictable dynamism of human interaction? Great points Denise!! Thank you for sharing!

Do you think that fear and/or rejection influence people to choose the Techno-coocoon (as I put it) over the unpredictable dynamism of human interaction?

]]> By: DeniseD http://humancipate.com/crowded-isolation/comment-page-1/#comment-1599 DeniseD Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:47:47 +0000 http://humancipate.com/crowded-isolation/#comment-1599 I have a theory about why people flock to coffee shops but remain silent. It's like keeping the TV on all the time, even though you're not watching. Going to a coffee shop, plugging in earphones and drowning out everything and everyone around you allows you to be in solitude, without being alone. It allows a kind of public privacy that working at home, alone, doesn't. There are times when just being around people, even if you never say a word, is quietly and secretly comforting. A simpler answer is that it allows for "people watching" something essential to any blogger/writer/world observer. Sometimes you can learn more about a person by what you see than by what they say, or don't say. I have a theory about why people flock to coffee shops but remain silent. It’s like keeping the TV on all the time, even though you’re not watching. Going to a coffee shop, plugging in earphones and drowning out everything and everyone around you allows you to be in solitude, without being alone. It allows a kind of public privacy that working at home, alone, doesn’t. There are times when just being around people, even if you never say a word, is quietly and secretly comforting. A simpler answer is that it allows for “people watching” something essential to any blogger/writer/world observer. Sometimes you can learn more about a person by what you see than by what they say, or don’t say.

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