Commodity

 "It's addiction to portable technology, which you take with you practically to bed, the cinema, to the theatre, to a dinner party. The symptoms are, like with any other addiction, that people spend more time using their technology than spending it in socialising or in family time."- Professor Nada Kakabadse, Northhampton Business School

Tech We Can't Live Without

PC Magazine

Jennifer L. DeLeo

This article outlines some of the gadgets that people cannot seem to live without.  As technological advances allow us to come up with these products, the general population gets more and more addicted to using them.  It changes our lives, and everything in it- from how we communicate to the things we do in our spare time, or things we do just to get through the day.  Ranging from TiVo, Gutiar Hero and other video games, cell phones and PDAs, as well as the internet and portable music devices.  

This relates to my work because I am incorporating objects into my images.  A route that I am trying to take with these objects is to abandon these technological gadgets that generally would not be discarded, I guess to create more of a forcefully abandoned feel into my imagery.