Tag: technology
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Portals to Tomorrow~
Today I visited the Nxt Museum in Amsterdam, a space dedicated to art, technology, and the future. The current exhibition invited me to walk through portals of light, shadow, and sound, all converging to confront what it means to exist in an age where technology is no longer a tool but a force shaping the…
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Shadows of Progress: Evolving with the Speed of the Future
This photograph taken today captures the silhouette of my sister Brigitte. She stands at the crossroads of shadow and light. The backdrop is a rapidly evolving skyline in the city where she lives. Cities like Abu Dhabi and Dubai rise as testaments to humanity’s ability to dream big and build fast. Yet, as technology accelerates…
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Slaves to the screen~
Who could have imagined that a day would come when our own advances in technology would enslave us and shut us out of the world we are anxious to know about. Screens are becoming a serious addiction for so many that we spend most of our waking hours staring into screens. This all reminds me…
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lonely together~ Shanghai
We created and developed technology to connect us, little did we know how lonely it would make us…
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Day 16~ March 16th~ Egypt
History and civilizations are not linear in their development… Each time I look at remains of ancient civilizations like the Chinese, the Mayans, the Romans, the Greeks, and the Egyptians, I find it quite difficult to relegate the fact that a lot of what is evident in their artifacts and architecture points to a more…
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Day Three Hundred Forty Five, January 2, 2012
January 2nd was a day of airports and airplanes and naturally jet lag. For me feeling a jet lag and being out of sorts for a few days after a plane ride is a certain indication that humans were never meant to travel that fast across the globe. The way things used to be for…
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Day two Hundred Fourty Seven, September 26, 2011
I was looking in a drawer the other day and I came across an old phone (the palm 650), I carried it in my hand and felt stunned at its weight, bulkiness and clumsy appearance. This was my dream phone only 2 years ago because it had a keyboard for writing emails. And I realized…