Exchanges in Real Spaces & Virtual Spaces
POST 12: SPACES & EXCHANGES - Exchanges in Real Spaces & Virtual Spaces: Two cartoons
How far is the boundary between real and virtual spaces becoming increasingly blurred nowadays?
The first document is a cartoon drawn by Harvey Schwadron, where we see a man looking up to look at the window of a corner shop. There is a panel on the window that says "Ace Computers" and asks why "eco-tourists" would "travel and add to pollution while they could stay home and visit exotic travel web sites!"
This means that today, thanks to the internet it is so easy to just look up anything and have it in front of us in mere seconds. For example, you can easily look up "Thailand beaches" and scroll through the endless pictures of idyllic scenery all while being on your own sofa. Today, pollution and global warming is a big question and we all know that planes leave a big carbon footprint. It is an ironic cartoon that pokes fun at the limit we have today with reality and what is on our screens.
In the notion Spaces and Exchanges, we can easily place this cartoon. Between the neverending flux of tourists exchanging from one physical place to another, the cartoon gives the eco-tourists another way to stop commercial tourism, instead stay at home and visit a virtual space.
OK Hadil.
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Well done overall. A pity the lettering does not allow for an easy read in the second part of your blog post. This technical issue should have been fixed before publication.