Sunday, August 22, 2010

Imagine, if we could really resize media.

We can decide to watch it as a 2-hour movie, or get it automatically set into a short story. Or we could resize the short story into a photograph with a short caption. Or translate it into a poetry in another language. We can decide how many words, how many photographs, how many videos, how many minutes, how many stanzas, the media should be presented with. Resize-able media relieves a message from having to be restricted to one single form.

I think it is important to be able to communicate what we have to say. But even when we are ready to tell, the world is full of people who are not ready to know. But if resize-able media were possible, then they could choose the version of the story they are ready to hear, and take it with them, until they are ready to see the whole thing. We don't really see people for who they are too much of the time. Not because people don't tell, but because we don't want to know. The people we think we know, may turn out to be not who they are altogether. Resize-able media would, at least, remove the confrontation from the honesty. I hate the idea of living a lie, but I can't come to terms with telling people what they do not prepare themselves to hear.

Things would be so much simpler if people could just have an open mind and always choose to face reality.

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