But today, instead of encountering an adult who'll try to set them straight and/or discipline them, these children will meet cameras and microphones that encourage, magnify even venerate their boorish public behavior.
Instead of encountering theory only in lecture, in section, and on course websites, students were reminded of its relevance every time they glanced at their Twitter feed.
Instead of encountering Ulay walking towards me from the opposite direction, I found him waiting for me in a scenic spot between two temples.
What if, instead of encountering a psychotic Billy Zane in the middle of oceanic nowhere, the Australians happened upon a boat full of asylum seekers on a broken-down, slowly sinking vessel in the Timor Sea?
But instead of encountering Godwin's Law in the comments, you might start encountering Google instead.
Instead of encountering the novelty of "becoming-with" new technologies and recognizing their interruptive and disruptive novelty, we experience instead the digital banal, a lack of awareness of how much mediation colors experience.
Instead of encountering water, Williams hit a shallow oil deposit.
Instead of encountering handsome men and hearing, "It was great to meet you - can I take you for dinner on Saturday?", why am I drowning in a dizzying storm of text messages and mixed signals and ambiguous interactions and missed connections?
"That's not how this is supposed to work!" a young man yelled at Alexis Farmer, 19, and Destini Ross, 18, when, after following his app, he instead encountered them on the patio of a downtown Shake Shack with scooters by their side.
This is lazy dramaturgy: it offers behaviour patterns instead of encounters, narrative instead of choice and antagonism in place of conflict.
