socialtechtraining in toronto teaches web tools for change smith milner new stechnevad a delayed by rain unknown car bloggingprius mike mcbride biz press flumoxed reporting on its own reporting as msftyhoo u nknown tec hdata gets physical u nknown was hington dc group accused of hightechdirty tricks to suppress sarah lai stirland in search of new fertilizertechno really alexis madrigal radiohead figures...
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one of my favorite outcomes from theasoul tech workshopais that one of the participants ariel meadows aatechasav vyamicroso ft employee aauthoraand insightful abloggerad ecided to commit to one night a week of no screen technology except snapping a few digital pictures to record her process.ashes documenting her experiences on her blog under the tag and registered domain name 52nightsunplugged. aaa ...
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unplugged night was awesome again i spent the evening brainstorming and drawing and ideamaking with my friend joriel who was knitting. andreas meanwhile had a bad day and needed to veg so he hid in the bedroom watching movies and drinking all night. poor thing i was also mulling over the nature of distraction and why its almost a comfort to me. in some ways i almost feel most comfortable if im mul...
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part ii part i a modernitys myth in order to understand the relevance of tolkiens story to us today and in order to better understand how technology has taken such a prominent place in our society we will now need to examine another myth a myth which wants us to take it a little more literally.aai call it a myth because every worldview is partasystemaand partastoryaathey are systems because they t...
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we continue from the last entry exploring the nature of technology through tolkiens myth my story as early as about 1978 when personal computers were just beginning to make their way into many north american middle class homes i was already spending a lot of time with them. using a computer was one of the few things my stepfather and i did together. in fact i learned to type by playing computer ad...
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