Drawings about technology and reality
By Frits Ahlefeldt, Hiking.org
free internet is not exactly like free beer
PowerPoint about PowerPoint about…
From one place to another
Technology is coming to the hiking trails real fast
Talking about the digital future is big business
Challenges to communities
Digital models today define how we design and build everything from cities to hiking trails
Theory struggle hard to keep up with how the next generations see the world
Sketch, wondering how a Google AI enhanced headwear might look tomorrow.. Design and sketch thought by Frits Ahlefeldt
Virtual hiker
Technology change the way we understand and define places
Half phone half hiker drawing
The world Wide Web as a light bulb idea
The digital consumer wants everything for free, now and without interruption
Daydreaming
Technology can’t hug you – yet…
Cloud connected people
a short history of the apple from Adam, over Newton, to Steve Jobs
The digital realm is still the wild west, and nobody today really know how to deal with cybercrime and digital bandits – it’s the wild west of modern ciivilisation
Chained to technology
Trolls – part of the dark side of the web?
Being caught up online
Some think we might leave the physical world more or less – soon
All generations from the oldest to the youngest are connected to the web today
Sketched thoughts about Technology
Digital fireplace – not the same
Google’s new name Alphabet is a new kind of creature on the planet, a huge one, that knows us all
Evolution from fish to man to android
Smart cities are the hope that technology can somehow make the cities more intelligent an more adaptive to human needs
Digital community
Two very different realities are about to connect
Our brains adapt and change with the way we use technology
The logic of calculation is often right under the surface of how technology change the world
Locked in
Digital life and real waves
Someone needs a hug illustration, no text version
The challenge of entering the digital realiity
The digital self-publishing man
Genetics and digital codes might merge sometime in the near future
Electrical hiker, walking from outlet to outlet
The new currency of likes, smileys and other emoticons
Bottled modern life
Citizens connected to the cloud-based smart-city
The old days goes back more than 3 billion years
The global digital village is a strange mixture of sharp boundaries and unlike meetings
Collection of hiker types
Using the stairs or the web
Even food is getting more and more digital
The new kind of dwelling
Powerpoint presentations are dominating logic at both organisations, business and universities today
Some think people get closer to machines, and machines closer to humans
Girl with a no phone zone t-shirt
You can’t eat technology
Social media friends
Sometimes a minute is all you need
Technology needs to be plugged in
Paradise today is more about being digital connected than about padding lions
We are real – put your phone away, drawing to promote real connections
Internet trolls can be very different, if you meet them in real life
Technology and love
Hikers can get all the digital gadgets they can carry to be connected to everything
Our understanding of sharing is changing – illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Kids more and more grow up alone – surrounded by advanced technology, wrapped into toys
Kids today see reality through a screen more often than not
Together in love… can technology remove loneliness?
Talk to me I’m real sticker illustration
The modern city is surrounded and encapsulated in information technology
When hiking today many hikers use computers, androids, artificial intelligence, social media, drones, GPS-gadgets, smartphones, screens and other new digital and non digital technologies for all kinds of things. These new technologies are rapidly changing how we spend our time and how we connect and see reality. – not only in the cities, in communities and in the families, but also on the trails, where the new technologies are tested to their limits in all dimensions.
Hiking and technology is today very close connected and the ways hikers use technology is likely to become mainstream soon, because if it will work on the trails it will work everywhere. But this new dimension in hiking is also changing how the next generation understand hiking – Already today many hikers no longer leave to be alone on the trails, connecting to nature, instead they prioritize much of their time to publish, update, log, give feedback, shoot selfies and connect to social media, far away family, trail-rangers or online communities
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