Virtual Honesty: Clive Thompson wrote an essay in the New York Times magazine where he muses over a study by Jeff Hancock of Cornell University that found people are more honest when communicating by email than they are when communicating over the phone. Hancock's data suggest that the archival nature of email is responsible for the increased honesty -- there is a belief that email messages are recorded and may be subsequently recounted verbatim, unlike normal speech, where misstatements are forgotten.
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monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
