So iPhone is out in the market and everyone is losing their mind to get their hands-on to feel that exquisite elegant design in their palm, to get devoured by the beautiful immersive technology we get with Apple products. So there is this thing called optical image stabilization in iPhone 7 and what it does is that it helps us get rid of shakiness in our picture when we click it with our hand giving us that perfect shot, that exact frame what we want.
Well, it couldn't be better for all those "selfievorous" millennials. They are like in the seventh heaven but it isn't the same for me. See, I'm not a cynic. I don't hate this digital age but think about it. Isn't it more fun to have that bit of shakiness in our picture, a bit of blurriness so that we can click again and again to get that perfect shot? Isn't it more exciting to lineup and take out our selfie stick with a grin smile on our face only to find that we gotta click it again because someone just went out of the frame? At least this makes us smile again and again doesn't matter if it is a pretentious one. See human beings may have this intrinsic desire to reach perfection in every walks of life, to be the best superlative thing but once you reach perfection you risk completion. Once you climb up that peak you invite boredom and I think this is what this technology is doing to our lives to some extent. Especially in the field of art and creativity by giving us that perfect picture, by giving us that perfect doodling, by giving us that perfect sound and thus reducing the human involvement.
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So if you happen to be here in this generation of cyborgs and Tony Stark then I think there has never been a better time than now to commit mistakes, to show that you are imperfect, to prove that you are a human, not a fucking robot.
Well, it couldn't be better for all those "selfievorous" millennials. They are like in the seventh heaven but it isn't the same for me. See, I'm not a cynic. I don't hate this digital age but think about it. Isn't it more fun to have that bit of shakiness in our picture, a bit of blurriness so that we can click again and again to get that perfect shot? Isn't it more exciting to lineup and take out our selfie stick with a grin smile on our face only to find that we gotta click it again because someone just went out of the frame? At least this makes us smile again and again doesn't matter if it is a pretentious one. See human beings may have this intrinsic desire to reach perfection in every walks of life, to be the best superlative thing but once you reach perfection you risk completion. Once you climb up that peak you invite boredom and I think this is what this technology is doing to our lives to some extent. Especially in the field of art and creativity by giving us that perfect picture, by giving us that perfect doodling, by giving us that perfect sound and thus reducing the human involvement.
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But, on the other hand, I have this funny feeling that the more the technologies escalate towards perfection the more the value human touch will have. The more the world becomes an electronically mediated labyrinth, the more the importance this human flesh and blood will have. It will be a kind of a relic of the beauty of some ancient past and the funniest part is that all those little mistakes which we are really not proud enough to show we'll be worn as an insignia of beauty pinned up to our chest. And perhaps this very sentence justifies it all - perfection destroys the beauty because beauty isn't in the perfection, it is in the mistakes. It is in the incapabilities. It is in the innate deficiencies that never let us reach that apex point.
So if you happen to be here in this generation of cyborgs and Tony Stark then I think there has never been a better time than now to commit mistakes, to show that you are imperfect, to prove that you are a human, not a fucking robot.
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