Concluding multitasking

Had a lot of tasks in my professional job as a futurist at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures studies. Thus this late concluding post on the first theme here at Visual ethnologist.

My header could just as well have been called the more enigmatic "What are you doing?". That would be a great line if it wasn't so wannabe-shcolaric ;o)

The "what are you doing" is one of my first insigths into this field of documenting how we live with technology in our everyday life. The handheld devices are subject to a type of over interpretation that has to do with the dynamics with which we use them. Thus I had to disqualify a lot of my pictures (again - taken with my trusty old Sone Ericsson c902 mobile phone camera. And I am getting quite fond of the old boy) showing individuals texting. As it turned out seconds later, they were just looking up a contact, and happily chatting (as in the old English definition of talking in an informal way. Not the internet lingua definition of talking through text in a chat-room... I digress). So you have to ask your self the following question as I will through this ongoing investigation of our use of everyday tech: what are you doing? Sphere: Related Content