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Ary Aranguiz

What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine - 2 views

www.smithsonianmag.com/...Against-the-Web-183832741.html

shared by Ary Aranguiz on 28 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Chris Swift on 28 Dec 12
     
    The internet is not amazing, rather it "destroys political discourse, economic stability, the dignity of personhood and leads to "social catastrophe.". What do you think?
  • Study Hub on 02 Jan 13
     
    Thanks for this reference - very thoughtful and thought-provoking. Don't quite know what to 'do' with the information... a simple rubric could be to use the web the same way that Carl Rogers advises us to teach - with unconditional positive regard, congruence and empathy. Which is okay when you are still dealing with people - it gets so much complicated when we must perforce deal with or through impersonal monetised systems like Google or FaceBook.
Ping Lee-Wragge

BBC News - What If? Visions of the future - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/world-21163117

Future visions Art #edcmooc MOOC

shared by Ping Lee-Wragge on 20 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • What does the future look like to you?
  • share their vision with us
  • six artists from around the world
  • Ping Lee-Wragge on 20 Feb 13
     
    Thanks to Rick B's recent Diigo share re: How will our future cities look? I found this project; syncs with what the EDCMOOC is enabling and encouraging participants to partake in.
Rick Bartlett

We need to talk about TED | Benjamin Bratton | Comment is free | theguardian.com - 2 views

www.theguardian.com/...we-need-to-talk-about-ted

#edcmooc TED critique

shared by Rick Bartlett on 31 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • This is taking something with value and substance and coring it out so that it can be swallowed without chewing. This is not the solution to our most frightening problems – rather this is one of our most frightening problems.
  • I'm sorry but this fails to meet the challenges that we are supposedly here to confront. These are complicated and difficult and are not given to tidy just-so solutions. They don't care about anyone's experience of optimism.
  • but TED's version has too much faith in technology, and not nearly enough commitment to technology. It is placebo technoradicalism, toying with risk so as to reaffirm the comfortable.
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  • The potential for these technologies are both wonderful and horrifying at the same time, and to make them serve good futures, design as "innovation" just isn't a strong enough idea by itself. We need to talk more about design as "immunisation," actively preventing certain potential "innovations" that we do not want from happening.
  • f we really want transformation, we have to slog through the hard stuff (history, economics, philosophy, art, ambiguities, contradictions). Bracketing it off to the side to focus just on technology, or just on innovation, actually prevents transformation.
  • At a societal level, the bottom line is if we invest in things that make us feel good but which don't work, and don't invest in things that don't make us feel good but which may solve problems, then our fate is that it will just get harder to feel good about not solving problems.
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