Calm Tech

Principle that technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention. Technology can communicate, but doesn't need to speak.

Alara Orhon Ozseker and

Slow Technology: Designing for Reflection

Designing technology that encourages reflection and mental rest, rather than just efficiency, is the focus of this paper. The concept of "slow technology" is introduced and examples are discussed.

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phoebe

The Zeitgeist Is Changing. A Strange, Romantic Backlash to the Tech Era Looms

Ross Barkan theguardian.com

DDavid Pennington

“The new romanticism has arrived…Backlash is bubbling against tech’s dominance in everyday life, particularly the godlike algorithms - their true calculus still proprietary - that rule all of digital existence.”

Screw you, Computer: get on my terms, in my environment, and you respect me and my biology and what matters to me. Don’t subjugate me by putting a face-hugger on my face. So anyways, I got some ranting at this point.

aalex

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Slow design

design.family

sari and

What does it tell us about progress if the most influential technological innovation of the century is clearly destroying lives on a massive scale?

Ted Gioia • I Ask Seven Heretical Questions About Progress

David Pennington

Aperture

focuswithaperture.com

sari

minimalist phone - reduce your screen time

minimalistphone.com

alex

Dolly Parton on why she’s only reachable through fax and doesn’t text: “I’m a low-tech girl in a high-tech world. I don’t want to talk to everybody that wants to talk to me. I don’t text because I don’t want to have to answer.”

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alex

No More Shiny Tomorrows: Futurism Needs to Get Real

Amber Case caseorganic.medium.com

Alara Orhon Ozseker and