Re:Why Disconnecting from Your Phone Is So Good for You – an...
by nonrandomstring on Sunday October 09, 2022 @06:57AM
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Some good tips, thanks for sharing.
> No, I do not reject new technology innovations; instead, I refuse
the ways of the people how they engage with these tools.
Absolutely. This is a key attitude. It's mature and strong to be
discerning, not to "throw out the baby with the bath-water".
But it's also the friction point, because culture and use is
inseparable from affordance/utility [1]. In different words, how other
people use technology also impacts it's relation to you. Especially
networked technology. So dash2's response to my earlier comment is
spot-on, we need collectively organised "spaces" and groups to
challenge digital imposition.
[1] Not wishing to bore with lots of tech critique literature and
references but Jacques Ellul (New Demons, Empire of Non-Sense), Ivan
Illich (Tools for Conviviality) and Neil Postman (particularly
Technopoly and Amusing Ourselves to death) - all good materials to
understand the difficulty of neatly distinguishing individual
choice/freedoms from context of culture and practice.
> No, I do not reject new technology innovations; instead, I refuse the ways of the people how they engage with these tools.
Absolutely. This is a key attitude. It's mature and strong to be discerning, not to "throw out the baby with the bath-water".
But it's also the friction point, because culture and use is inseparable from affordance/utility [1]. In different words, how other people use technology also impacts it's relation to you. Especially networked technology. So dash2's response to my earlier comment is spot-on, we need collectively organised "spaces" and groups to challenge digital imposition.
[1] Not wishing to bore with lots of tech critique literature and references but Jacques Ellul (New Demons, Empire of Non-Sense), Ivan Illich (Tools for Conviviality) and Neil Postman (particularly Technopoly and Amusing Ourselves to death) - all good materials to understand the difficulty of neatly distinguishing individual choice/freedoms from context of culture and practice.