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By: Michael Epstein

Michael Epstein — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:35:31 +0000

Per the Cascio piece, “Cascio’s answer was something like: we ourselves decide, if we choose not to, then it won’t happen.” Ouch, sounds like he’s drunk a bit too much of the technology freedom cool-aid. Of course, our ability to choose to use e-mail or not is much less today than say 20 or 30 years ago. Certain communication modes can cannibalize their predecessors and you are right to think our own navigation skills may get dumbed down as our oral storytelling (Walter Ong) and even memory have through digital devices. _Technopoly_ opens with a nice episode from Plato in which handwriting is offered by a God with the caveat that memory will decline. Of course, I’m enjoying this memory taking technology right now, but we should at least couch innovations such as augmented reality in careful terms of how they might be detrimental. In our work, we are still striving for AR media that puts you more in touch with our surroundings and serendipitous encounters than cut us off. I think the real “bozo filter” innovation may come in the form of cattle prod that lets us buzz people obnoxiously yelling into their phones in public places and otherwise tuning out important aspects of their surroundings.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:43:53 +0000

It is good to see people taking seriously the ways in which technology is changing our relation to reality itself. I am particularly interested in the way that mobil technologies and the internet are changing journalism which was touched upon in the discussion of mobil devices and advertising, although many of the other sections have implications for it as well. There are some great interviews on the subject at http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid69

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