Mobile Minded

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by Mieke Gerritzen

Gingko Press

Due/Published October 2002, 140 pages, paper

ISBN 1584231238

A thought-provoking collection of visual commentary on a 21st century social and business phenomenon: the mobile phone. Is the body becoming our interface? Are there mobile borders? Does the notion that we are linked to virtually every communications medium through handheld technology mean that no place is sacred? All these questions and more are posed in Mobile Minded, a new manifesto in which Mieke Gerritzen and friends express their varied and sometimes diametrically opposed opinions in short, sharp maxims, questions and declarations. The mobile phone is one of the most powerful communications media ever to have emerged. It has changed the face of business throughout the developed world and changed the way in which hundreds of millions of people socially interact. Mobile Minded prods us to think about it.