What kind of problems, crime and laws would be generated if Teleportation were possible ? Please reply/comment ...

That's a question I asked today on Facebook and that is why i Love the power of a social networking site like FB. There are intersting discussions that can be generated in a matter of minutes across your planet of friends.

Yes, sure teleportation and all it's vices is something that interests me and I want to explore in future posts, but it makes it all the better if it can be talked about, argued around and made fun of.

Face facts. It might happen, it will happen in this lifetime or the next. The society born around it? Scary and exciting.

Some replies from FB.

"Illegal to teleport in ladies change rooms"

"I want to do it today - to your room"

"Increased access ... failure of technology could be dangerous"

"Crime: invasion of privacy, espionage, security in general
Laws: secure buildings would have to be subjected to regulations that stop any form of "energy" that teleportation uses from entering the premises. Airwaves would have to be regulated completely differently...complicated :("

"is this a trick question?!"

"If there is a cross-connection ... imagine where one would land up"

"Invasion of moon and mars"

"honestly, you can do everything with that skill. think of it as... a bird. that can fly so fast even can disappear in a sec. it can eff you so hard, and run away like this. same rule applies. mugging, sexual harrasing, but i feel like... organ ... Read Moretrading might be the most money making business (and the worst crime you can do). you can kill someone and take all the organs and shit. you can disappear in a sec.
just.. knowing that a human body (indlucing organs, DNA, bones, etc) is worth more than 45 million. Lol... i dont know... lol. its just gonna be... too much..? lol."

Lots of food for thought. I'm gonna sleep over this and respond.

Feel free to leave comments....

Facebooking, Twittering, Fluttering, Skyping

When I was 18 and joined architecture school, there was only one girl in her second year who was carrying a bulky mobile phone around. This was 1998. Mobile phones started to stream in slowly, although I was totally oblivious to it, living far far away in a sheltered creative environment, still untouched by the evils and wonderfulnesses of technology. My only contact with digital media was Autocad and Photoshop and I could'nt want more or care less.

Four years later, in 2002, the new bunch of buzzing freshers appeared with their glittering little mobile phones, tapping away on their little handsets from one corner of the university to the other, from one design studio space to the other, hell, from two feet away from each other. My class, feeling left behind, decided to get themselves mobile phones too, and very soon, I was part of the mobile community. My landline became redundant and I was constantly accessible.

Four years later, in 2006, I opened a new 'Orkut' account since it was the 'thing' to do and all my friends across the world were on it. I could upload a cool photograph of myself on it, add videos and photos on it which friends could view and leave little notes on each others wall, and spy on the activities of added friends. It was gossip central and everyone wanted to know what everyone else was doing all the time, and everyone wanted to speak out too all the time.

A year later in 2007 I closed my Orkut account due to the serious lack of privacy there,  and opened a Facebook account. This was it. this was the zone. This was my land. This is where I could instantly view what was going on in my friends' lives, and I could shout out to the world. This is also a place where I can express myself, add and view photoalbums. I started with 20 friends, now I have over 500, and only because I have constantly deleted people who don't really need to be part of my private digital possé.

Suddenly they all started to get linked. Websites, Twittering, Facebook, Doppler, Flickr - name it and they were all part of one social virtual universe. You could link your Twitter updates with your Facebook status, your Doppler changes with your Facebook news, your Flickr uploads with your Facebook profile page. This was the sun, the centre of the the social solar system, around which all the other social planets seem to be linked.

So, why? What's the big deal? Why do we upload our personal photos? Why do we share? why do we change our status updates and tell people what's going on in our lives, minds, hearts? Why do we link our Flickr photos to be viewed by our friends? Why do we link our travel updates to Facebook, why do we link our blogs to this one central space?

First of all, most of my  frinds are on it, which makes it easier for us to know what's going on in each other's lives. Second of all we all are shouting out. We're all creatures of expression. We all want to hear and we all want to be heard. We're all speaking our mind, we're al sharing because we want to share, we want to show, we want to be reacted to, we want to respond, we want response, we want to be together. The communal disintegration caused by technology, the distances caused by industrialisation, opportunity, and diversity all started to be bridged again by social networking sites, and in a much bigger brighter way.

Communal living, in the past, kept people connected, they knew everything about everyone in their village or block, because we all expressed, or whispered it into each other's ears. Social networking is that village brought back but in a much mightier way. We are willing to share our lives with each other. We are willing to shout out, to express, to be ourselves, behind that screen.

More thoughts on this soon....

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Back Home.

This is 'Dilli Haat' or the 'Delhi street Market' , a large open public area made of courts, pathways, pavilions and shops, where craftsmen, musicians and cuisines from all over the country meet under one sky. This is where rural is brought close to the urban.

Yes, I'm back in India for now.... and it never fails to amaze me with it's crazy complexity.

It is impossible to draw a generalization about anything in this country. In india you will find temperatures ranging from -30 to 45 degrees celcius, depending on where you are... you will find big cities and small villages and forests with tribes... you will find beautiful oceans, arid deserts, tall mountains and deep tropical jungles. You will find the very rich and the very poor, the very conservative and the very open minded, you will find love and compassion and yet, religious riots. It is a strange, beautiful, complex and mysterious land... and very very ancient indeed.

The face of Analog will change now for a while and concentrate on Home. 

work in progress

 

This is all that's going on in my life at the moment. With 7 days to my final presentation and 25 days to a master's degree, i feel pretty relaxed. Read more about the project here and view more images of the final stages here.