This has to be the best reading we have had so far. I just like the premise of dissappearing and haveing people try and hunt you down. I would love to have been in his shoes, or at least know about this contest while it was going on. He is reather clever in all of his actions and I wonder if most people would be as clever as he was if they were trying to hide. Id like to think that in this day and age you can still dissappear if you want to without people being able to find you, but its obviously harder than I had previously thought. Making yourself disappear is a strange thing to try and do to say the least, but to then orchestrate people to hunt you is genius.
One of my favorite parts of this story is all of the twitter users working together to hunt him down. Sharing information in the digaital age is easier than ever and these people did just that. Hunting somone down only using digital paper trails is such a weird concept to me because its so abstract. People dont realize how easy it is for them to be followed and traced simply through everyday actions. Personally I would like to hear a story about one of the people tracking him and all of the methods and means they used to do so.
I like thinking the world is big enough to hide in but the old idiom holds true, its a small world after all.
Glad you liked the reading, Mike.
ReplyDeleteThe level of collaboration in locating Evan really is impressive. It didn't seem to be about $, but rather the simple challenge of, "can we actually catch this guy?"
I think you're right in that hiding is probably still possible - but not without getting off the grid and isolating yourself even more than Evan did.