Thought provoking
Analyzing our culture's pathological impatience with learning and the critical need for contemplation and time to claim true knowledge.
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And yet you present this discovery to people that we wanted to know more about big ideas, that we want our brains to be stretched.
As a culture, you're right, we seem somehow bored with thinking. We want to instantly know. Right, right. I mean, you know, there's this epidemic of listicles. Why think about what constitutes a great work of art when
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Ian Bogost • You’re Getting ‘Screen Time’ Wrong
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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