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Contemplative Computing
categories: Digital literacy, technology
Computers and health: ‘When you’re sitting, you’re one step above being dead’
CES 2016 is packed with health companies offering solutions to desk-based laptop slouch. Our reporter stopped slouching for long enough to try some of them
how to focus in the age of distraction
Plamen Miltenoff
February 4, 2016 at 7:43 pm (9 years ago)From: Ewing, M Keith
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 9:44 AM
To: Miltenoff, Plamen
Subject: contemplative computing
I’m not able to immediately locate the reference to the book I mentioned. I don’t believe it was Distraction Addiction, a slightly older book on the same topic with which you are probably familiar. There are lots of essays on similar topics that play into mindfulness. For example—
Morris, Sean, and Jesse Stommel (2015) “Is it okay to be a Luddite?” http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/okay-luddite/
Rheingold, However (1998) “Technology 101: What do we need to know about the future we’re creating?” http://www.rheingold.com/texts/techcrit/technophiles4.html
Mander, Jerry (1991) “An interview with the author of In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations.” http://www.ratical.org/ratville/AoS/theSun.html (Mander’s earlier “Arguments for the Elimination of Television” is described in an interview on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3NBEurnIqY)
Birkerts, Sven (1994) Gutenberg Elegies, and (2015) Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age.
Talbott, Stephen (1995) The Future Does Not Compute.
Hutchby, Ian (2001) “Technologies, Texts, and Affordances” http://soc.sagepub.com/content/35/2/441.full.pdf
Thinking about the role of technology in our lives, stepping back from the technology and considering how it changes us in fundamental ways and benefits us in others, is a huge, nearly boundless topic that has been around for a long time. It’s not limited to computer technologies or the Internet (as Jerry Mander demonstrates).
keith
Plamen Miltenoff
March 11, 2016 at 12:23 am (9 years ago)http://www.businessinsider.com/carats-and-cake-jess-levin-why-unplugging-is-terrible-advice-2016-3
One CEO explains why she thinks this common piece of career advice is terrible
She doesn’t disagree that unplugging can do wonders — but she says doing it every day, for a few hours at a time, isn’t realistic for everyone.