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tag > Culture
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog
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It’s time to pay attention to the $15 trillion business of growing old:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90341269/its-time-to-pay-attention-to-the-15-trillion-business-of-growing-old #HCI #Culture #Business
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Always On - Technologies that mediate the self heighten consciousness, but that doesn’t mean they are empowering - by L. M. Sacasas: https://reallifemag.com/always-on/
#Augmentation Technology #Culture
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“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” - Marshall McLuhan
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Borg Complex: A Primer - by L. M. SACASAS (2013):
https://thefrailestthing.com/2013/03/01/borg-complex-a-primer/
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The future’s so bright, I gotta wear blinders - by Nicholas Carr:
http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8557 #Technology #Augmentation #Culture #Media
In his books Empire and Communication (1950) and The Bias of Communication (1951), the Canadian historian Harold Innis argued that all communication systems incorporate biases, which shape how people communicate and hence how they think. These biases can, in the long run, exert a profound influence over the organization of society and the course of history.
Is there an overarching bias to the advance of communication systems? Technology enthusiasts like Kelly would argue that there is — a bias toward greater freedom, democracy, and social harmony. As a society, we’ve largely embraced this sunny view. Harold Innis had a very different take. “Improvements in communication,” he wrote in The Bias of Communication, “make for increased difficulties of understanding.” He continued: “The large-scale mechanization of knowledge is characterized by imperfect competition and the active creation of monopolies in language which prevent understanding and hasten appeals to force.” Looking over recent events, I sense that Innis may turn out to be the more reliable prophet.
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"Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization" - talk by Parag Khanna:
Smart, interesting, even compassionate analysis. And yet, getting fundamentals very wrong.
#Politics #Technology #Culture
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The importance of stupidity in scientific research:
http://jcs.biologists.org/content/121/11/1771 #Science #Culture #Creativity
"Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant. The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries"
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IKEA in India: Culture Centered Design Strategy:
http://nitibhan.com/2018/07/07/ikea-in-india-culture-centered-design-strategy/
The takeaway for culture centered design isn’t that “India” will receive one singular design aesthetic or product line but that each one of India’s cultures, both traditional and modern, will be catered to. That is powerful.
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Suspend Your Disbelief (or, how to ruin everything in 7 steps)
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Community Engagement:
https://www.slideshare.net/salishsea/community-engagement-presentation
The way to heal a living system is to connect it to more of itself
- Humberto Maturana
Have a powerful question to which you don't know the answer
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Interesting evidence of culture in swamp sparrows:
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/06/swamp-sparrows-display-evidence-of-centuries-old-tradition-in-their-songs/ #Culture
"they have stable cultural traditions, with song types that can last many hundreds of years,”
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When Algorithms Create Our Culture:
https://www.worldcrunch.com/tech-science/when-algorithms-create-our-culture/c4s19935
Music, books and other intellectual artifacts are increasingly being produced automatically by machines. A new book explores the ways in which artists exploit this new reality.
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Cyborg Anthropology - "a framework for understanding the effects of objects & technology on humans and culture": http://cyborganthropology.com/ a wiki managed by @caseorganic
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WANT: Culture Blocker
Works similarly like ad-blockers, but let's one filter out specific cultures
(of countries/companies/communities). #Culture
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#Prediction: In 2018 someone will start a new porn site, which 100% focuses on "fake" videos, generated with machine learning. It will be the most popular adult site online by 2021. #ML #Culture #Generative
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog
It’s time to pay attention to the $15 trillion business of growing old:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90341269/its-time-to-pay-attention-to-the-15-trillion-business-of-growing-old #HCI #Culture #Business
Always On - Technologies that mediate the self heighten consciousness, but that doesn’t mean they are empowering - by L. M. Sacasas: https://reallifemag.com/always-on/
#Augmentation Technology #Culture
“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” - Marshall McLuhan
Borg Complex: A Primer - by L. M. SACASAS (2013):
https://thefrailestthing.com/2013/03/01/borg-complex-a-primer/
The future’s so bright, I gotta wear blinders - by Nicholas Carr:
http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8557 #Technology #Augmentation #Culture #Media
In his books Empire and Communication (1950) and The Bias of Communication (1951), the Canadian historian Harold Innis argued that all communication systems incorporate biases, which shape how people communicate and hence how they think. These biases can, in the long run, exert a profound influence over the organization of society and the course of history.
Is there an overarching bias to the advance of communication systems? Technology enthusiasts like Kelly would argue that there is — a bias toward greater freedom, democracy, and social harmony. As a society, we’ve largely embraced this sunny view. Harold Innis had a very different take. “Improvements in communication,” he wrote in The Bias of Communication, “make for increased difficulties of understanding.” He continued: “The large-scale mechanization of knowledge is characterized by imperfect competition and the active creation of monopolies in language which prevent understanding and hasten appeals to force.” Looking over recent events, I sense that Innis may turn out to be the more reliable prophet.
"Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization" - talk by Parag Khanna:
Smart, interesting, even compassionate analysis. And yet, getting fundamentals very wrong.
#Politics #Technology #Culture
The importance of stupidity in scientific research:
http://jcs.biologists.org/content/121/11/1771 #Science #Culture #Creativity
"Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant. The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries"
IKEA in India: Culture Centered Design Strategy:
http://nitibhan.com/2018/07/07/ikea-in-india-culture-centered-design-strategy/
The takeaway for culture centered design isn’t that “India” will receive one singular design aesthetic or product line but that each one of India’s cultures, both traditional and modern, will be catered to. That is powerful.
Suspend Your Disbelief (or, how to ruin everything in 7 steps)
Community Engagement:
https://www.slideshare.net/salishsea/community-engagement-presentation
The way to heal a living system is to connect it to more of itself- Humberto Maturana
Have a powerful question to which you don't know the answer
Interesting evidence of culture in swamp sparrows:
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/06/swamp-sparrows-display-evidence-of-centuries-old-tradition-in-their-songs/ #Culture
"they have stable cultural traditions, with song types that can last many hundreds of years,”
When Algorithms Create Our Culture:
https://www.worldcrunch.com/tech-science/when-algorithms-create-our-culture/c4s19935
Music, books and other intellectual artifacts are increasingly being produced automatically by machines. A new book explores the ways in which artists exploit this new reality.
Cyborg Anthropology - "a framework for understanding the effects of objects & technology on humans and culture": http://cyborganthropology.com/ a wiki managed by @caseorganic
WANT: Culture Blocker
Works similarly like ad-blockers, but let's one filter out specific cultures
(of countries/companies/communities). #Culture
#Prediction: In 2018 someone will start a new porn site, which 100% focuses on "fake" videos, generated with machine learning. It will be the most popular adult site online by 2021. #ML #Culture #Generative
