Leica Q - the image thread

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[Yoki]

Disconnection Within Connection

The smartphone is probably the most defining invention of the 21st century. It changed the way we live, work, and even how we exist in public spaces. We no longer need anyone else but the glowing screen in our palm — it pays for our meals, translates our words, connects us across oceans, and keeps us entertained while the world quietly passes by.

Just twenty years ago, waiting for a bus meant exchanging glances or small talk with strangers. Today, as in this photograph, around twelve people stand under the same shelter — yet only three are not looking down at a screen. Everyone else is somewhere else entirely: chatting with someone miles away, scrolling through headlines, chasing the next dopamine hit of a notification. We are connected to everything, except the moment we are in.

Their faces glow with the same pale light, like mirrors that reflect but never reveal. The city rushes past them, but inside this small shelter, time feels paused — a dozen humans in the same space, each lost in their own private world. Perhaps, in another twenty years, we’ll stop calling it a “smartphone” and start calling it just “life.” And maybe, one day, when the signal fades, we’ll remember how to look up and talk again.

 

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[Dazzajl]

1 hour ago, Yoki said:

We are connected to everything, except the moment we are in.

That is a far too brilliant an observation for comfort!

[Yoki]

59 minutes ago, Dazzajl said:

That is a far too brilliant an observation for comfort!

Haha, I’ll take that as a compliment… I think 😄

[Olaf_ZG]

5 hours ago, Dazzajl said:

That is a far too brilliant an observation for comfort!

This is what I thought as well…