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Elasticity of Anti/Social Spaces

Tokyo: herding mobile phone users
 

Mobile phones used in this Ochanomizu hospital, restricted to phone booths. In a world of smaller more discreet objects, how to know what activity a person is engaged in? The extent to which the anti-social aspects of that activity (externalities) are noticed by people in proximity? Or that these behaviours can be analysed retrospectively? The effect that knowing someone’s historical behaviour will effect their current behaviour.

Tokyo: herding mobile phone users