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Technology Is Over - by James Taylor Foreman

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:29:29 +0000

Just like all the people who were worried about the nuclear bomb earlier in this age: the thing to do is to get on with living. Building a house, having a family, and being useful to people, and making things beautiful: making a garden, making a little hut where you can write your essays, cutting the grass and weed-eating. When all is said and done, twenty or fifty years from now, I have a strong feeling that most people will wish they had been doing that all along. That is what it practically means to believe that Technology Is Over.

Tags: #future #technology

Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Rant about "Techonolgy"

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 03:58:27 +0000

Technology is the active human interface with the material world. ... We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...

Tags: #leguin #scifi #technology #writing

The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ TV remote were a mechanical marvel - The Verge

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 03:24:25 +0000

The Zenith Space Command, one of the first wireless television remotes ever to exist, is a monument to a time before we took the remote for granted. It also just so happened to contain one of the most influential and intriguing buttons in history.

Tags: #engineering #hardware #imported:pinboard #technology #tv #zenith

How the internet is making us poor – Quartz

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:04:46 +0000

Barring a civilization-ending event, technology is not going to move backward. More and more of our world will be controlled by software. It’s already become so ubiquitous that, argues one of my colleagues, it’s now ridiculous to call some firms as “tech” companies when all companies depend on it so much.

Tags: #automation #economy #future #imported:pinboard #jobs #software #technology #to:fb #work

How the internet is making us poor – Quartz

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:04:46 +0000

Tags: #automation #economy #future #jobs #software #technology #to:fb #work

Sugar Within Human Bodies Could Power Future Artificial Organs: Scientific American

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:15:03 +0000

"Now there is hope that future implants might be powered not by batteries but by the fuels in our bodies that are used for energy. Scientists have shown that fuel cells implanted in rats can successfully generate electricity from sugar in the rodent's bodies. The devices kept going for months at a time."

Tags: #biology #fuelcells #future #gadgets #implants #medicine #power #research #technology

Kit

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:17:59 +0000

Tags: #freedom #hardware #ipad #makers #technology #tinkerers

A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges - washingtonpost.com

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:38:23 +0000

"If the mainstream of "college teaching" becomes a set of atomistic, underpaid adjuncts, we'll lose a precious academic tradition that is not easily replaced."

Tags: #college #education #future #learning #professors #publishing #technology

100 Best Blogs for Librarians of the Future - Learn-gasm

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:26:30 +0000

"This collection of library and information technology blogs have changed that, and now you’ll be able to learn about all of the trends, developments, tools and resources available to librarians in every niche."

Tags: #blogs #librarians #libraries #research #system:host=www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com #technology #web2.0

Hard Drive weight increasing?

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:14:27 +0000

"I've noticed that as I copy data/install programs on my Laptop, the weight of the Laptop increases. I have a bad back and am medically limited on the amount of weight I can carry so I need to be very carefull not to inflict injury upon myself."

Tags: #funny #harddrives #hardware #mass #microsoft #stupid #system:host=social.answers.microsoft.com #technology #weight

For Mozilla and Google, Group Hugs Are Getting Tricky - NYTimes.com

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:19:04 +0000

Tags: #firefox #mozilla #technology #web

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: I'm really thinking maybe I shouldn't have yelled at that Chinese guy so much

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:58:57 +0000

"We all know that there's no fucking way in the world we should have microwave ovens and refrigerators and TV sets and everything else at the prices we're paying for them. There's no way we get all this stuff and everything is done fair and square and everyone gets treated right. ... everything you own, it's all done on the backs of millions of poor people whose lives are so awful you can't even begin to imagine them, people who will do anything to get a life that is a tiny bit better than the shitty one they were born into, people who get exploited and treated like shit and, in the worst of all cases, pay with their lives."

Tags: #china #economics #economy #gadgets #politics #standardofliving #technology

100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About | GeekDad | Wired.com

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:17:07 +0000

"There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks."

Tags: #culture #geek #generations #genx #history #parenting #technology

Locus Online Perspectives: Cory Doctorow: Cheap Facts and the Plausible Premise

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:42:44 +0000

"These facts were a currency in my social circle. We'd trade them like baseball cards. I'd show you my payphone trick and you'd show me your gag for turning the cellophane on a cigarette pack into a smoke-ring machine. Social capital accrued to everyone who could show or explain something that gave you power and insight into the mysterious workings of the world."

Tags: #culture #diy #hacking #ideas #invention #scifi #socialcurrency #technology #tricks

TiVo Elbows Into Living Rooms With Recording Patent (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:28:55 +0000

Good for them, I

Tags: #cable #dvr #entertainment #technology #tivo #tv