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Ondi Timoner's We Live in Public will be closing the "New Directors, New Films" series early this evening at the Museum of Modern Art. I met with her a little more than a week ago. I decided to wait for tonight's screening (rather than request a screener) to see it again. I saw it in a Sundance screening booth the first time. Now I want to feel how it plays with a crowd.

We Live in Public, which is easily one of the most thought-provoking docs I've seen (as well as the most disturbing), is about '90s internet pioneer and onetime dto.com milionaire Josh Harris. Timoner documented Harris's life for more than a decade "to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives," as one synopsis reads.

My attraction/fascination with We Live in Public is based on the fact that my life as an 24/7 internet columnist is necessarily obsessive and all-consuming, and that Harris's experience is somehow reflective of my own. I'm an extreme case, but I suspect that everyone with a computer and/or a smart phone is succumbing to the virtual world as well -- and at the same time losing touch with the semi-natural/organic life that we all knew before digital seeped in.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on April 5, 2009 at 6:33 AM

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YRG says ...

Hmm... Life before digital seeped in... that would have been sometime before 1986 for me. I got a head start on the digital life when I called BBSes at 14 and I haven't looked back. Although 23 years of computer living has eliminated the obsessive need to be always online. I spend most of the day today outside. I did have to lug my 8 pound Dell around with me though, instead of my mini... and I'm typing this in from my iPhone. Do I have a problem or is this normal?

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