Computing is rapidly evolving to encompass every area of our lives. Given this, how do we identify skillful and unskillful relationships with technology? How do we distinguish when technology is improving our experience verses detracting from it? What are the benchmarks? Like Tron, I picture technology marketers as the blue team, the buying public as the “gold” team. We’re speeding along, but how critically are we evaluating the path?
Thanks to my friend Geoff Barnes for forwarding these videos inspiring the conversation over IM this morning.
[tags]microsoft,surface computing,apple,future,tron,barnes,mcnitt[/tags]
This conversation to which you allude is a long-running one among the two halves of my terminally debating Gemini self, the latest installment of which I’m writing about on my site this morning. For me, the implications are so dire. I don’t think it’s alarmist to worry that, in filling all the empty spaces on our schedules, we’ve lost something far more important than what we *may* have gained by alleviating a little boredom.
Oh yeah, my site: http://loremipsum.wordpress.com
Maybe someday I’ll take it back to a URL of my own, but not today.