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Bradford Saron

Advocating for Balanced Content Filtering in Oklahoma City Public Schools - Balanced Fi... - 1 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 22 Nov 11
     
    What a great dialogue to model when talking with others about the filtering of the internet in schools. 
Bradford Saron

The Technium: The Positive Balance of Technology - 1 views

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  • More importantly the sum of all these technologies form an interacting whole much like a technological ecosystem. I call this super system of codependent inventions the technium. Like life itself, this whole system exhibits behavior that its parts do not. Just as we cannot detect any “hiveness” in an individual honeybee (only in the total system of the hive), we cannot see the behavior of the technium in a lone iPhone, knife, or refrigerator. The true influence of technology is felt in its whole system.
  • The patterns by which living organisms mutate and diversify in evolution so resembles the way technological varieties transform over time, that we can think of the technium as the “seventh kingdom of life.” Technology is an extension and acceleration of the same forces of evolution that crafted the other six kingdoms of life.
  • I would suggest that most of the problems in the world tomorrow will be caused by technologies that we are still inventing today.
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  • Each new invention also creates more than one new moral choice for us, and this accumulation of free will over time supplies a positive charge to the technium. Over the long term technology gives us greater differences, diversity, options, choices, opportunities, possibilities, freedoms. This is the definition of progress.
  • We are involved in much more than just inventing novelty. When we create and use technology we're actually involved in something that's bigger than ourselves. We are extending the same forces that make life, accelerating evolution into the future, and we're increasing the possibilities, both for us, our children, and for the world at large. That is what technology wants.
  • Bradford Saron on 01 Mar 11
     
    Great article on the evolution of technology and us. 
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