Video: Internet and people. Real-virtual project by Jeroen van Loon
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
During its existence, the Internet has changed the world beyond recognition. It penetrated even the most remote places - the jungles of Africa and New Guinea, becoming a means of communication, business, a place for obtaining and applying knowledge. It is about these global changes that we are talking about in the extraordinary real-virtual project Life Needs Internetcreated by dutch designer Jeroen van Loon.
The rapid development of the Internet and computer technology has led to the fact that the vast majority of literate people in the world typing more text on the keyboard, rather than writing it by hand. And in some states of the United States, the ability to use a pen and a pencil has already ceased to be mandatory for studying. And the words "mail" and "letter" in our time have become automatically perceived in the meaning of "e-mail".
It is on these innovations that have burst into the lives of billions of people around the planet, and the Dutchman Jeroen van Loon tried to build his work. During the implementation of his project, he traveled to many countries around the world, having visited the rich Western powers and the poorest regions of Asia and Africa, penetrating even the most hopeless slums.
And he asked all the people he met on the way to write a letter about how the Internet influenced the life of this person. And it does not matter at all whether it is typed on a computer, and subsequently printed, or written by hand.
All the letters he received were digitized by Jeroen van Loon by scanning them, and then he worked on them creatively, turning each of them into a portrait of the person who wrote it. Thus, the author showed that behind these letters are living people with their own history, their hopes, dreams, problems. And it is from these personalities, by and large, that the Internet consists. After all, the Global Network is not just a repository of digital information, but, to a large extent, also the people who use it.
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