Zoom-in Online

Ten years ago, who could’ve predicted what the Internet would become today? Avatar-based chat rooms, streaming audio and video channels, detachment from reality, webcam-based celebrity culture are all par for the worldwide web course these days with social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook quickly filling in for and replacing face-to-face human interaction. And it’s only getting worse.

Josh Harris, founder of Pseudo.com, heralded the current state of Internet proliferation a decade before broadband connections even existed and embodied his theory in his social experiment dubbed “Quiet: We Live in Public.” Ondi Timoner’s Grand Jury Prize-winning We Live in Public documents Josh’s experiments and holds a mirror up to us an Internet addicted society. In this On the Circuit interview, Ondi talks about the creation of the revealing documentary, how the Internet age is changing our lives for good and for ill, and how she tried to remove judgment and subjectivity from the story.