The Journal of Rational Madness
The Journal of Rational Madness
The necessary distance between you and your digital tools
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The necessary distance between you and your digital tools

Observations from the digital and physical street
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I am out and about in my favorite part of London. Not far from 221B Baker Street, I am noticing how people use their digital tools, particularly their smartphones and Bluetooth headsets whilst walking along the noisy streets of the capital of the UK.

How important is it to consciously place our digital devices and behave more like artisans of our digital lives? What happens when digital immersion in the physical world sets our feet to almost running along, ignoring everything and everyone around us and almost getting hit by a London bus?

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