Category: Technology
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Disconnect
Disconnect is the order of the day, given all the stuckness in the world in the web of communications. How come we prefer to remain stuck like flies to a web? The spider’s coming, the spider’s coming! (Photo by Fabian Michel on Unsplash)
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Life Without Limits
My primary complaint against technology is the temptation it offers for us to live life without limits and boundaries, especially when it comes to the consumption of information. The endless stream of articles, music, podcasts, blogposts, news, tweets, email, etc. via the web, for example, is simply more than we can handle. Technology isn’t necessarily…
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The Technological Society
Jacques Ellul (author of The Technological Society) wrote the following around 50 years ago: But man himself is overpowered by technique [read: technology] and becomes its object. The technique which takes man for its object thus becomes the center of society; this extraordinary event… is often designated as technical civilization… Technical civilization means that our…
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Is Reading Better Than Listening or Watching?
Neurological studies show that, as we learn to read, our brains undergo extensive cellular changes that allow us to decipher the meaning of words with breathtaking speed and enormous flexibility. By comparison, gathering information through audio and video media is a slow and cumbersome process. – Nicholas Carr in “The Rapid Evolution of Text”
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Taking a Sabbath from Technology
Overwhelmed by technology? Suffering from information overload? Here’s the CURE!
PHILIPPINE THEO LAW GEE 