(Pokémon Go/Gustave Caillebotte, “Le Pont de l’Europe,” 1876 from CityLab.com)

Nicholas Carr (writer of The Shallows and The Glass Cage) recently posted his own “take” on the Pokemon Go/augmented reality discussion, mostly from the vantage point of art and Instagram.  The article starts with one of Carr’s own “Theses in Tweetform”: Instagram shows us what a world without art looks like.  And it gets even better from there.

The article is great and can be read here.  I really liked the image that he used, so I traced it back to its source, CityLab.com.  They had also posted an article about Pokemon Go and augmented reality, comparing it to Charles Baudelaire’s poetry and the French idea of the flaneur.  It’s a much more graceful reading of the moment.  You can read that article here.