We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connected.
It evokes a romantic narrative utterly removed from our safe land-bound lives, perpetually connected and surveyed as they are.
SAN FRANCISCO — Internet entrepreneurs climb on stage at technology conferences and praise a world in which everyone is perpetually connected to the Web.
Rooted at the intersection of performance and technology, Schneider's work critically investigates our over-dependence on being perpetually connected in an always-on world.
In recent years, though, with the proliferation of smartphones, iPads and wireless Internet access that perpetually connects those devices to online sources of music, Apple's iTunes approach to selling songs for $1 or so apiece has come to seem antiquated in comparison with music streaming services like Spotify and others.
And here's the twist: as the boundaries between work and personal lives blur, it often feels like our lives are getting more and more "disconnected". Information is funneled into more and more specialized applications to help us stay perpetually connected to our friends, colleagues, clients, and family (of course not always in that order).
Today's customer is perpetually connected with brands, and is leaving behind a rich trail of behavior offering clues to their intents and interests.
Home and the HTC First will mostly appeal to hardcore networkers, but they give us a vision of Facebook's ideal experience, how it wants us be perpetually connected.
It's easy to see how this generation — perpetually connected, empathetic, creative, restless — which has already changed business and how it operates, could drive the notion of impact even further by insisting that only system-wide change "counts" as impact.
Social media has become a fixture of modern life, a constant stream of information coming and going, and a way to stay perpetually connected.
