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Touch, Don’t Touch

New York: Not Touch
 

There was a time when we made an effort to connect. Today if you are reading this, then you make the effort to disconnect.

Today we have visual cues that tell us what can be touched, interacted with. In tomorrow’s future perfect the cues will be to tell us what cannot be touched.

See also: mechanisms to prompt us to touch, and the social/legal contracts that will be ‘signed’ through everyday activities such as walking in an elevator.