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Elasticity of (Anti) Social Spaces

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.

Related - a dedicated mobile phone booth in this lounge in Copenhagen airport, cutting down on the mobility of smokers in Tokyo.

Writing from Ochanomizu | April 20, 2008 | Permalink