Calm Tech
Principle that technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention. Technology can communicate, but doesn't need to speak.
Calm Tech
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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.”
The Patronship — Woolgather
woolgather.shI like the idea of offering a limited time/limited number of lifetime software memberships.
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.
arena-attachments.s3.amazonaws.comThe Zeitgeist Is Changing. A Strange, Romantic Backlash to the Tech Era Looms
Ross Barkantheguardian.com
“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.”
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
minimalist phone - reduce your screen time
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We don't necessarily need to constantly interact with people “around” us on the web. The sensation of being in the quiet companionship of someone else, like reading next to them in a cafe, is what we're missing. The sense of ambiently sharing space – of being co-present – while engaged in other activities is a staple of shared public spaces that we're still figuring out how to design in the digital realm.
Our current “multiplayer” experiences draw too much attention to the multiplayer-ness. The other people around you demand attention. They move. They flash. They point to exactly what they're focused on, drawing you away from your own focal point. We are missing out on a fuzzier, softer sense of the shared web.