(Source: Me - Marina Bay Sands)
I like technology. It really can do amazing things. But, I don't think we've properly adapted to it.
Yes, we use technology in incredible ways -- to connect with families across continents, to accomplish more in a day than we previously could in weeks or months & to access the world's information at our fingertips.
We also use it to indulge our bad habits -- to gossip, to stalk, to compare, to mindlessly entertain, to show-off & to ignore (for more, see my posts on Facebook & Pinterest).
Today, I photographed people outside of Marina Bay Sands. You to judge how they use technology.
Ever since watching Jonathan Harris' TED talk on "The Web as Art," I've wanted to go to Bhutan. He created an interactive art project on happiness in the last Himalayan kingdom, which I found incredibly memorable due to Jonathan's powerful use of symbols.
Here's the introduction to his project:
"In Bhutan, happiness is no laughing matter -- academics study it, spreadsheets track it, billboards tout it, conferences debate it, and every year, foreign intellectuals flock to Thimphu to share their ideas about what exactly makes a person happy. Instead of "Gross National Product," Bhutan uses "Gross National Happiness" to measure its socio-economic prosperity, essentially organizing its national agenda around the basic tenets of Buddhism.
