What do we actually want from our technology?
Why don't movies look like *movies* anymore?
youtu.be5:09 / We’re also losing the talent to do this.
tech improves but also makes us forget how to do or perform certain tasks.
this is what we see when we see whole cultural trades becoming extinct. what is new today, will become old tomorrow and new again.
TIME ASSETS are actions or choices you make today that will save you time in the future.Software is a classic example of a time asset. You can write a program one time today and it will run processes for you over and over again every day afterward. You pay an upfront investment of time and get a payoff each day afterward.
JamesClear.com • A Different Way of Thinking About Productivity
ather than create clocks that produce uniformity and ensnare us in regularity, why not create clocks that suit your pattern of being, whose minutes follow the length of your breath, or match your circadian rhythms?
What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
Can we communicate in memes with tech/AI?
“Technology catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think. It changes people’s awareness of themselves, of one another, of their relationship with the world. The new machine that stands behind the flashing digital signal, unlike the clock, the telescope, or the train, is a machine that ‘thinks.’ It challenges our notions not only of... See more
Yancey Strickler • The Post-Individual
If we’re headed towards a future of agents integrated into our work and technology, maybe there’s an opportunity for AI to bridge gaps between language barriers. I mean this in both a human and programming sense.
Unplugging may not be the “right” answer. It’s an answer, for anyone who truly wants that kind of life, but it’s right on one end of the
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