The career of Benedict Cumberbatch has gone from strength to strength. With his new recent venture as Shakespeare’s Prince of Denmark, some may hope it goes from strength to strength. However, on Saturday August 8, at the stage door of London’s Barbican Theatre, Cumberbatch was seen and filmed asking the public not to use recording devices in the auditorium, and enlisting onlookers to put the word out.
It is a common sense solution. Appealing to people’s good will and empathy. It would be naive to hope that this will be a perfect solution, but we can be certain that that it’s a better option than the eviction-based alternative Cumberbatch mentions. If nothing else, his appeal does draw to mind questions about our relationship with technology.
What do you make of the Cumberbatch campaign? What do you think of smart device use in general? What are your rules on the uses of these and other kinds of technologies? Let us know in the comments!
