Bright Lights, Blind Spots

The revolutionary dimension of technological developments is all too often placed at the foreground, painting a future picture we can hardly imagine, let alone perceive. This book concentrates on the evolutionary aspect. How we take small steps. Or how certain underlying, invariable aspects survive hype after hype, and have their own rhythm or longue duree. It is the search for where change meets inertia. Progression as a balance between the familiar and the novel. The essays gathered in this book have as a leitmotiv this attention to how progression is a matter of locating the small steps we can take. This collection of essays represents a personal view of the area where psychology, media, technology and culture meet in the context of current technological and social developments. The crossroads it seeks, brings with it topics such as digital identities, interactive media and the museum visitor in a digital world.