Zooming In Disorder

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One day, a few years back  I had an strange urge to pinch on a photograph  on a construction magazine while reading an article. I wanted to expand a picture to find out more about a detail and almost did it. It would have been perfectly normal if I was reading the same article in the iPad, but unfortunately it a conventional paper version of the weekly magazine.
Yesterday we wanted to read the details of an address written in in very small fonts on a bottle wrapper and this time we wished we could pinch to clarity.
Pinch here describes a gesture used with two fingers used on a touch screen interface to zoom in and out. We pinch inwards to zoom in on a picture and outwards to zoom out of a picture or object.
As the line between our digital and non-digital life gets blurred, can this be then considered to be a "zooming in" disorder! I am quite confident that with the dominance of touch screen steadily increasing in our lives, others are suffering from this disorder too.

This post from 2014 has been edited and re-posted as it relevance has increased exponentially. 

Comments

  1. AnonymousOctober 21, 2014 at 5:34 PM

    "Zooming in disorder" Hope Oxford Dictionary takes note and gives due to credit to you.

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  2. A Plain ObserverOctober 21, 2014 at 6:21 PM

    Maybe one day we can even go back to talking to people. Imagine that!
    Interesting that today I logged in my blog and was going to delete the blogs that are not being updated anymore and then, yours was.

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