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How Addiction To Technology Is Taking Over Our Lives In Illustrations By Jean Jullien
French illustrator Jean Jullien draws witty illustrations that point out our absurd addictions to technology, social media and our smartphones. The artist is famous for mocking our obsession, which cuts us off from the real life, leaving us alienated and lonely.
Besides his satire, Jullien also uses social networks as a political platform. He is widely known for creating the "Peace for Paris" symbol which has become a worldwide sign of solidarity with France after the Paris attacks.
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Weirdo On The Subway
I tried crocheting on the London Underground once... that got some weird looks.
I'm the weirdo that reads in the car and gets pissed off at Gaea when it gets dark and I didn't bring a flash light.
Technology is evolution! It's addicted, yes, but no matter what is evolution and is good for humanity ;)
This is me whenever I am in public. People don't realize what kind of danger they put themselves in when they are in the streets with their head down so focused on a phone.
I am pretty sure he had put on the headphones and he had been listening to Marilyn Manson first time :P :P :P
Do try to bring Frank Herbert's "Dune" in hardcover and read on the subway... I prefer to have it on Kindle.
me when I forgot my earphones...but I don't have wifi with me so..I'm just listening music haaha
What makes you think that everyone on a smartphone or tablet is being productive?
Load More Replies...Apple Watch
Slavery in one image.... (yeah I include myself with my ipod hahaha... I want to change that definetely!
Freedom
Taking Pictures
Evolution?
New Tan
I think it would be on stomach, people are texting and scrolling all the time
Live Screening
Fine Dining
Gah I hate tech at the lunch/dinner table! This is THE moment to talk to each other!
Never Alone
Before Instagram
It Turns Me On
Apple Announces Revolution
I like apple..specially mac! but I agree.. those watches just creat more dependance... I think we need to free our minds at least outdoors...
Everyone Has An Apple These Days
Royal Baby: It's A Boy
Modern Living
Prayer Before Dinner
Life With Mobile Phone
Summer
The Future Of Photography
Ironically, most of the views of this artist's work were done on someone's phone.
Valentine's Day
How People Feel When They Put Together A Good Playlist
Hipster Generations
Irony
its cheaper to pat £600 for a phone, and £20 a month on a contract than to use a phone box these days
New Statue Of Liberty
Followers
Sightseeing
Have You Seen It Yet?
The Photographer
Electronic Cigaret, Available Now!
Do You Do It?
I'm pretty sure everyone with a cell phone had done this at one point in their life.
Rise And Shine
Man Vs Machine
Qr Phone
Online Museum
Family Time
Avatar
Bathing In Spam
Iphone 6
London
There's A New Captain America In Town
Quwerty
Tablets
Sexting
Love
Online
I don't entirely get this one but I find it strangely funny. I'm not sure why.
Week by week artists have only one point of view "machines are enslaving the people". Always the same smartphones grow, people shuting something (food, other objects, event or other), people live on Social media while being with other people. True Witch-hunt of XXI century. That starts to be annoying, please (begging) some new point -.-
I rarely ever see those artists - or any artist, really - celebrating everything that we can now accomplish and have access to with technology like this. If we didn't have this, they wouldn't have any other audience than the frustrated people from, let's face it, the generations that don't understand the technology or the people who think it's either analog, or digital. It's not. It can be both. I HAS to be both. It kills me that such potents instruments for change get put down because hurr durr technology is making us stupid. Protests are organized and news not making it to the mainstream media are shared. We find people from so many horizons with such different experiences online, and we have a world of information at the tip of our fingers. Social medias saved my life in so many ways that the non-digital life could never have. Instead of putting it down, celebrate and harness it. Otherwise, you're just dragging everyone down for trafic and ad revenue.
Load More Replies...Since I got my first Kindle (which by the way I was strongly against in the beginning), I can't imagine myself taking a 1000-page "traditional" book on the subway any more. There is no shame in having something that lets you carry your favourite books around in your purse... especially if it can fit several hundred books at the same time.
Same me. I'm not against book buying, but, men! They are incredible expensive, even the used ones, where I live. I read a lot for school and lots of novels by download on the internet. And Save for paper books too, but thanks to having everything on my cellphone I'm reading everything I wanted to read.
Load More Replies...These have been done to death already. How many articles about "soul-sucking phones" and photographs of people using iPads do we need? The images lost their effect after the first few, after that it was just overkill. This artist is creating digital art on their computer and submitting it to a website that heavily uses social media and caters to mobile devices. It sounds like they are probably profiting quite a bit from using these "alienating" and terrible electronic devices! People using phones and tablets at dinner, at the beach and in social situations need to work on their social skills and learn to be more respectful of people around them...but that is more about the individual than the devices they use. Also, there are a lot of people that aren't taking pictures of their food and tweeting every dumb thing they do, but actually use their phone for things relevant to their work and to learn and discover new things. How about something positive and less hypocritical next time?
All you old people need to get used to it. I'm at my desktop computer with my GoPro on the table, speakers, my phone, a 3ds, etc. and it's the new form of both productivity and entertainment. If I'm traveling and see a nice mountain range, I'm going to get out and shoot photos of the range and then flip the camera and take a selfie for memories of the location. Why sit on a bus, bored, when you can play a game or watch a video. Instead of going out and raking leaves to earn money, I started and am running a gaming server which is both *fun* and earns me some extra cash. I don't think it's good to like block out family while having a meal or getting less outside time but basically suck it up and "evolve" with the generation because I think it's better for the most part :D
there's nothing wrong with gadgets/tablets, we have to set the balance and know when we can use it and when we should put it down
Load More Replies...What a load of b******t. Social people are still social and non social people are still not social it just manifests itself in different way
I completely agree how technology is taking over, but it has some good uses too. But good issue your raising awareness too
Great work! Really good spoken through your creations. 'Bout what people say that some are frustrated about technology, my oppinion is that, if was something that made people smarter and sociable it was a great thing but no, it make people lonely and takes away their freedom. Few people read this days but everyone is facebooking, instagraming, lol, twittering. Everyone has 1000 friends on facebook but no one to call on friday night to grab a beer togheter. That's whats wrong with technology. We have bit to much of what Steve Jobs, etc, billionainers what us to bite to became more ignorant and stupid so they can more rich and powerful. This is my oppinion. No offence to anyone!
People who, like me, have trouble making connections face to face because of introversion, anxiety, shyness, or even physical disabilities, and so often prejudice, can enter a space where you can meet people from ANYWHERE, who share interests, opinions, emotions, experience. People are always stuck on how it limits us in "real life", without a care for those who ARE, by nature, already limited, and find in technology a whole world of people to talk to. It's often easier to write down something than to try to express it verbally, which can cause additional stress and trigger anxiety. People are redefining their identities, and finding the right people to help them grow.
Load More Replies...Yes Emil and Laury and others: we embrace technology and I too cannot function without it. But at the same time we have to fight against the addictions, that consume (young) users to the bone in situations that they should be aware of their direct surroundings. At home at the dinner table or when they should be sleeping. Or when they could be developing their own creativity instead of clicking other’s... Do more sports, get out more et cetera. And hearing no artists to proclaim the contrary: there’s enough communication about using and buying new technology from the producers. Glad there’s some counterweight ;-).
Then why is no one PROMOTING *that*? Offer project, develop way of reaching out - perhaps through that technology, but right now all I ever see is people acting as if it was going to turn us all into zombies. Before that, it was videogames, and the TV, and long before that, books. The older ways were NOT the best ways. Trying to reach out to a generation that grew with technology by devaluing and putting down what is a HUGE advantage in their life is definitely not going to get to them. What they will see is the older generation complaining. "In my time," the old man says with a trembling voice. This is not going away. Technology is growing exponentially. Bank on it, and use it to change the world instead of putting it down.
Load More Replies...i always try to forget my cellphone while hangout or traveling. seriously, it make you not enjoying if always depend with gadget!
I liked these, especially the ones relating to people getting together on purpose like at a restaurant, and all they do is look at their phones. I see this often and wonder why they bother.
I dont have a phone, so I don't relate to any of these. But I do see others on their devices and I fear that humanity will end up like....i don't know, idiots.
Hmm I'm studing psychology, neurology, history, languages ... I read books ... so I do not know if I'm stupid? Meanwhile I talk to my friends, we together doing some action in real life ... dance, play martial art technics, share our experience of life.
Load More Replies...Week by week artists have only one point of view "machines are enslaving the people". Always the same smartphones grow, people shuting something (food, other objects, event or other), people live on Social media while being with other people. True Witch-hunt of XXI century. That starts to be annoying, please (begging) some new point -.-
I rarely ever see those artists - or any artist, really - celebrating everything that we can now accomplish and have access to with technology like this. If we didn't have this, they wouldn't have any other audience than the frustrated people from, let's face it, the generations that don't understand the technology or the people who think it's either analog, or digital. It's not. It can be both. I HAS to be both. It kills me that such potents instruments for change get put down because hurr durr technology is making us stupid. Protests are organized and news not making it to the mainstream media are shared. We find people from so many horizons with such different experiences online, and we have a world of information at the tip of our fingers. Social medias saved my life in so many ways that the non-digital life could never have. Instead of putting it down, celebrate and harness it. Otherwise, you're just dragging everyone down for trafic and ad revenue.
Load More Replies...Since I got my first Kindle (which by the way I was strongly against in the beginning), I can't imagine myself taking a 1000-page "traditional" book on the subway any more. There is no shame in having something that lets you carry your favourite books around in your purse... especially if it can fit several hundred books at the same time.
Same me. I'm not against book buying, but, men! They are incredible expensive, even the used ones, where I live. I read a lot for school and lots of novels by download on the internet. And Save for paper books too, but thanks to having everything on my cellphone I'm reading everything I wanted to read.
Load More Replies...These have been done to death already. How many articles about "soul-sucking phones" and photographs of people using iPads do we need? The images lost their effect after the first few, after that it was just overkill. This artist is creating digital art on their computer and submitting it to a website that heavily uses social media and caters to mobile devices. It sounds like they are probably profiting quite a bit from using these "alienating" and terrible electronic devices! People using phones and tablets at dinner, at the beach and in social situations need to work on their social skills and learn to be more respectful of people around them...but that is more about the individual than the devices they use. Also, there are a lot of people that aren't taking pictures of their food and tweeting every dumb thing they do, but actually use their phone for things relevant to their work and to learn and discover new things. How about something positive and less hypocritical next time?
All you old people need to get used to it. I'm at my desktop computer with my GoPro on the table, speakers, my phone, a 3ds, etc. and it's the new form of both productivity and entertainment. If I'm traveling and see a nice mountain range, I'm going to get out and shoot photos of the range and then flip the camera and take a selfie for memories of the location. Why sit on a bus, bored, when you can play a game or watch a video. Instead of going out and raking leaves to earn money, I started and am running a gaming server which is both *fun* and earns me some extra cash. I don't think it's good to like block out family while having a meal or getting less outside time but basically suck it up and "evolve" with the generation because I think it's better for the most part :D
there's nothing wrong with gadgets/tablets, we have to set the balance and know when we can use it and when we should put it down
Load More Replies...What a load of b******t. Social people are still social and non social people are still not social it just manifests itself in different way
I completely agree how technology is taking over, but it has some good uses too. But good issue your raising awareness too
Great work! Really good spoken through your creations. 'Bout what people say that some are frustrated about technology, my oppinion is that, if was something that made people smarter and sociable it was a great thing but no, it make people lonely and takes away their freedom. Few people read this days but everyone is facebooking, instagraming, lol, twittering. Everyone has 1000 friends on facebook but no one to call on friday night to grab a beer togheter. That's whats wrong with technology. We have bit to much of what Steve Jobs, etc, billionainers what us to bite to became more ignorant and stupid so they can more rich and powerful. This is my oppinion. No offence to anyone!
People who, like me, have trouble making connections face to face because of introversion, anxiety, shyness, or even physical disabilities, and so often prejudice, can enter a space where you can meet people from ANYWHERE, who share interests, opinions, emotions, experience. People are always stuck on how it limits us in "real life", without a care for those who ARE, by nature, already limited, and find in technology a whole world of people to talk to. It's often easier to write down something than to try to express it verbally, which can cause additional stress and trigger anxiety. People are redefining their identities, and finding the right people to help them grow.
Load More Replies...Yes Emil and Laury and others: we embrace technology and I too cannot function without it. But at the same time we have to fight against the addictions, that consume (young) users to the bone in situations that they should be aware of their direct surroundings. At home at the dinner table or when they should be sleeping. Or when they could be developing their own creativity instead of clicking other’s... Do more sports, get out more et cetera. And hearing no artists to proclaim the contrary: there’s enough communication about using and buying new technology from the producers. Glad there’s some counterweight ;-).
Then why is no one PROMOTING *that*? Offer project, develop way of reaching out - perhaps through that technology, but right now all I ever see is people acting as if it was going to turn us all into zombies. Before that, it was videogames, and the TV, and long before that, books. The older ways were NOT the best ways. Trying to reach out to a generation that grew with technology by devaluing and putting down what is a HUGE advantage in their life is definitely not going to get to them. What they will see is the older generation complaining. "In my time," the old man says with a trembling voice. This is not going away. Technology is growing exponentially. Bank on it, and use it to change the world instead of putting it down.
Load More Replies...i always try to forget my cellphone while hangout or traveling. seriously, it make you not enjoying if always depend with gadget!
I liked these, especially the ones relating to people getting together on purpose like at a restaurant, and all they do is look at their phones. I see this often and wonder why they bother.
I dont have a phone, so I don't relate to any of these. But I do see others on their devices and I fear that humanity will end up like....i don't know, idiots.
Hmm I'm studing psychology, neurology, history, languages ... I read books ... so I do not know if I'm stupid? Meanwhile I talk to my friends, we together doing some action in real life ... dance, play martial art technics, share our experience of life.
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