The Dark Side of Frictionless Technology
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The Dark Side of Frictionless Technology
A body wash trying to be fragrance trying to be philosophy. The utility of cleaning itself remains absent in it’s equation
We scramble for chargers while a swarm of notifications slice through our simple intentions. “I'm just trying to play music,” I say to myself, but one t... See more
Where is the purity of a tool that does one thing well, and one thing only?
We scramble for chargers while a swarm of notifications slice through our simple intentions. “I'm just trying to play music,” I say to myself, but one t... See more
A small defense of tools that don’t notify, perform, or update
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Go touch paper: How the Apple Vision Pro turned me from a VR-optimist into a techno-selectivist.
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While emerging technology can woo us with convenience and awe, it risks distracting us from our goals, and devaluing our innately human capacities. Sometimes the way forward is to revert to analog technology. We're entering an age where the
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