Humane Tech
Content and projects that inspire the creation of technology that treats attention and intention as sacred, protects well-being, and builds our collective capacity to address humanity’s most urgent challenges
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Humane Tech
If you know to look, you can feel the difference between software crafted with care for its users and systems of vacuous tradition that just happen to be good at producing the vapid fodder of convenience.
Robin Berjon • Retrofuturism
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Mini apps and bits of software you’ve built just for yourself and/or friends and family.
Things that don’t scale, aren’t meant for others to use, & valuable just for your specific, snowflake use case.
Ideally custom built, but could be... See more
nametwitter.comServiceBell - Add live human connection to your website
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How did you find me?
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To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
Saffron Huangletterstoayoungtechnologist.com
Rituals are how we make meaning, personally and together.
In games studies, these worlds-within-a-world are called magic circles. A magic circle is the space where the game takes place.
We need ritual technology. Technology designed for ritual use.
Why? Most of the software we use daily is designed to engagement-max. Social media feeds, loot boxes, compulsion loops, gang gang yes yes yes ice cream so good. You’re caught in a feedback loop with the algorithm, and you are the squishiest part of that loop.
Where social media is compulsive, tools for thought are reflective. Where social media is here and now, tools for thought dwell in the long now. Tools for thought slowly build compounding momentum through low, slow feedback loops that point us in the directions we want to develop.
I wonder if 50 years from now we're going to look back at how we've redesigned our world around computers with the same regret that people look back at how we redesigned cities around cars. 🤔
Ben Reinhardttwitter.com