The DIY FOSS cyborg -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
Why we crave healthier computing
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stand poised on the brink of becoming true cyborgs, of having inorganic features that are inseparable from our bodies, features that modify our abilities, desires, personalities and identities.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
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These projects, Victor says, are just “nibbles around the edges” of his larger obsession: how the media in which we choose to represent our ideas shape (and too often, limit) what ideas we can have. “We have these things called computers, and we’re basically just using them as really fast paper emulators,” he says. “With the invention of the printi... See more
medium.com • The Utopian UI Architect
And worst of all, we’ve lost sight of the most salient part about computers: their malleability. We’ve acquiesced the creation of our virtual worlds, where we now spend most of our time, to the select few who can spend the millions to hire enough software engineers. So many of the photons that hit our eyes come from purely fungible pixels, yet for ... See more
Steve Krouse • The "Next Big Thing" is a Room | Phenomenal World
