One of the things that I really liked about Sony’s marketing stunt for Carrie is that it shows that when people should be running away really fast, they do not. Most of them take out their phones these days and start snapping photos or recording video.

This article covers the same territory about people’s true reactions.

I wonder if this is how people have always reacted, how much race and class matter, and if people now feel more “virtualized” due to not feeling it’s a real experience unless it is recorded?