Calm Tech
Principle that technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention. Technology can communicate, but doesn't need to speak.
Calm Tech
andrea and added 9mo
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 added 10mo
minimalist phone - reduce your screen time
minimalistphone.com
alex added 6mo
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.”
alex added 1y
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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aron and added 1y
Technology increasingly robs us of the mystical in our lives. Not everything needs to be fast and available and convenient. I love ideas and products that reveal themselves slowly - more whisper than scream.
-Dennis Paphitis
sari added 5mo
Slow design
design.family
sari and added 1y
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
... See morearon • Ambient Co-Presence
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Alara Orhon Ozseker and added 2y