A few days ago a local newspaper of Chongqing, one of China's main capitals, published photographs that would end up going around the world: the first lane for mobile phones in the country. A path of about 30 meters where the pedestrian could walk in a straight line with the look nailed to the mobile, safe from bike smartphone.
The measure is not as surreal as it may seem. In a country with such a large population (China has more than 1.3 billion inhabitants) and with increasingly crowded cities, many see in this type of drastic solutions the optimal management for the circulation of people. Throughout the city, fences have been installed that publish the initiative, and many attach a diagram that teaches how to use the lane properly. Recently we also saw an American video that denounced the increase in injured, and even deaths, due to this new phenomenon of civil "neglect."
It is evident that our dependence on smarphones is an upward trend, but we will all agree that what should rise is not this phenomenon, but our eyes when walking.
The measure is not as surreal as it may seem. In a country with such a large population (China has more than 1.3 billion inhabitants) and with increasingly crowded cities, many see in this type of drastic solutions the optimal management for the circulation of people. Throughout the city, fences have been installed that publish the initiative, and many attach a diagram that teaches how to use the lane properly. Recently we also saw an American video that denounced the increase in injured, and even deaths, due to this new phenomenon of civil "neglect."
It is evident that our dependence on smarphones is an upward trend, but we will all agree that what should rise is not this phenomenon, but our eyes when walking.
