I longsufferingly confide you to the shadow
As I stare at the capsule slipping in orbit
Behind the chalky, round lamp inconstant, and I
Imagine you cradled in space, suckled by tubes
The Astronaut’s Wife
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Can We AutoCorrect Humanity?
October 8, 2014 By
Can we autocorrect humanity? Lyrics: Did you know the average person spends 4 years of his life looking down at his cell phone? Kind of ironic, ain’t it? How these touch-screens can make us lose touch But it’s no wonder in a world filled with IMac’s, iPads and iPhones So many “i”’s, so many selfies, […]
Ellen Rose’s “On Reflection”: A Review
October 21, 2013 By
Ellen Rose, On Reflection: An Essay on Technology, Education, and the Status of Thought in the Twenty-first Century. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2013 124p $29.95 (CDN) Who Ellen Rose is Professor of Education at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. For slightly more than the last decade, she has taught graduate students and written widely […]
How To Speak Mac: A Translation of Apple’s June 10, 2013 TV Advertisement
June 17, 2013 By
This is it. This is what matters. The experience of a product. How will it make someone feel? Will it make life better? Does it deserve to exist? We spend a lot of time on a few great things… until every idea we touch… enhances each life it touches. You may rarely look at it, […]
Tech As Prison in New Marketing Campaign
April 26, 2013 By
The Brazillian magazine Go Outside recently ran advertisements with brilliant, apocalyptic-looking images in which prisons are in the shape of various tech devices. The message ostensibly is that we use our tech devices too much and, per the name of the magazine, should go outside more often. Here’s the iPhone version: Here’s one based on a computer […]
Tech development from 1993 to 2013 in one picture
April 22, 2013 By
A palm pilot, polaroid camera, video camera, watch, walkman, pager, mobile computer – oh, and also a mobile phone. h/t Reddit
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