Group Therapy

Today I came across this video by Sid Volter. Its called Seamless and I love it for the fact that it overlays a narrative about loss of contact with the real world over google mapping footage: the ultimate device for total strategic control over our environment. The text documents the decent into depression “its like a kind of falling, falling out of sync with things. Its as if everyday life has a rhythm. But you don’t normally notice it, its seamless”. You can see it here http://sidvolter.blogspot.com/
I suppose that we take technology for granted as a means of exerting more control over the world around us, for connecting more quickly with the important people and places in our lives and pulling them into closer proximity. However the omnipotence of technology has also been subverted in quite sinister ways by people who have taken their own lives live via web cam or mobile phone. I wonder if technology can actually help us to loose touch with reality at times?…….