How We Increasingly Live In a Low Resolution World

With the advent of internet and the much increased usage of teleconferencing and social networks, we may have significantly decreased the resolution of our social interactions. This is of course quite a paradox in a world where we all seek higher resolution TV and screens.

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Still, our human interrelationships are increasingly virtual and by this fact, significantly lower resolution than real, face-to-face interactions in a real-life environment, with all that is entailed in terms of informal interaction. And this is not going to be significantly improved by higher resolution video!

The same applies for social networks: what we post is usually just a subset of what happens in our lives, and thus gives out an image of significantly lower resolution than would have someone living with us.

There is thus quite an interesting contradiction between a world that seeks always higher resolution TVs to watch the world, and the diminishing resolution of our social interactions. How can we explain this contradiction? Is the race for higher resolution screens a way to compensate for lower resolution relationships?

Hat-tip to Valeria Maltoni’s ‘What is High Resolution, what is Low Resolution. Can we Tell?‘

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