I have witnessed brief moments of people huddled around an iPod, or group of iPods, to compare and share their choices in music. Such moments are fun to watch and often interesting to listen to. Within this kind of moment, people are brought together through technology.
Communal iPod moments are short lived however. The basic nature of using an iPod is a solitary one. People have the power to tune out from the world and find comfort in their personal soundtracks. When given the opportunity, most high school students today tune out their teachers and fellow classmates to listen to their iPods. Is the gain from the comfort of solitude greater than having to reconcile the sounds of the world which surrounds us? What observations go unnoticed in the comfort of programming the familiar?
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