“Does digitised information transcend all that was previously solid?” Hand (2008)
The recent demise of high street shops is indicative of Hand’s comments on the change from solid to digital.
HMV and Jessops are prime examples of the change in the way people interact with technology and how it is slowly but inevitably leading to the decline in having solid tangible objects.
It has taken some time but I am now a member of
Netflixs for films,
Spotify for music,
Dropbox for digital info and photo’s
Evernote for reading
My shelves are now longer being restocked, my social and cultural history through physical objects will end about 2011.
I am beginning to look at old dvd’s, books and cd’s and think they are just gathering dust and should not take up shelf space. These are some of the things that could identify me culturally and socially within specific groups and yet they have been transcended and are no longer solid representations of my cultural background
