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TELL ME, DO YOU INTEND TO FUCK IT?
If I had to take a bet of what the majority of iPhone owners are doing right now, it would be very simple → they’re looking at their iPhone. Hardware that powerful, produces an image that is equally powerful and equally shared. The iPhone’s image is one of self-attention.
Each hardware paradigm releases a sort of canonical image that goes along wit... See more
Each hardware paradigm releases a sort of canonical image that goes along wit... See more
In Search of New Software Cultures
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our culture are downstream of our hardware. because our hardware determines what kind of software is possible
Scrolling on our phones is killing us. The internet promised us, first and foremost, new ways to communicate and connect with each other. We thought we’d be getting more of each other, not less.
But it’s safe to say, now that we’re more than thirty years into the great internet experiment, that our devices didn’t bring us closer together. They drove
... See moreEros—carnal desire—is an embodied experience, and our phones do a terrific job of getting us out of our bodies and into our heads. In the digital age, we often neglect our bodies entirely, and use them merely as a way to transport our heads to meetings. (The rise of rave culture and physical fitness programs since the 1990s is perhaps evidence that... See more
Bradley McDevitt added
Yet, smartphones are much more than an accumulation of improvements in hardware and software into a pocket-sized device that we spend too much time looking at. They represent something entirely new. When we pick up our phones, our taps and swipes engage not only a system of hardware and software, but also something much bigger—a set of institutions
... See moreNicole Aschoff • The Smartphone Society
Andreas Vlach added
The vision was always just out of reach, because the tech was just out of reach.
Yet today, Apple is selling a technically flawless pen computing system in the Pencil and the iPad, and no-one cares.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 546
Jimmy Cerone added
Wild to see that we can perfect a form of UX and find it largely useless
PERPETUAL TRANSFORMATION... AND TO WHAT END
The reason I write about technology, is to provide a trail of my thoughts as we work through what it means to be molded by the tools we seek to mold.
We are absolutely massaged over by technology. And the internet, what has taken over more of our perceived reality than the truly experienced physical embod... See more
The reason I write about technology, is to provide a trail of my thoughts as we work through what it means to be molded by the tools we seek to mold.
We are absolutely massaged over by technology. And the internet, what has taken over more of our perceived reality than the truly experienced physical embod... See more
Reggie James • Rough Notes: Memory, Identity, and Transformation
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Apple makes something of a religion about hiding its implementation details. Its hardware is notoriously encapsulated. The iPhone won’t deign to expose even a screw; it’s as close to seamless as manufacturing technology will allow.
Kevin Simler • UX and the Civilizing Process
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