whats on your thing
that thing in your hand that tells you stuff
considering the mobile phone in art, culture, and technology.
via Digital Savant.
The iPad, another thing.
Prepare for the backlash
Because there is going to be one, trust me. This device isn’t as obvious as iPhone. It’s kind of subtle. Which means that those of you who have done the spiritual work to prepare for it will be fine, but those who haven’t done the work, well, they’re probably going to miss a lot of this at first. So you’ll see some noise about who needs this thing, it’s just a fancy desk ornament, and so on. I am telling you this now so that you can be ready for the harsh voices and they won’t hurt you when you hear them. Just let the negativity pass by you. Do not engage with it or try to fight it or argue with it. Step aside, and let the dark energy flow away. Peace, enlightened beings. This is what you and I were put on earth to achieve. And that is what this device ultimately is about. Yes, you can read on it, and watch movies. But those are functions. Features. Those aren’t its purpose. The purpose of a device is something different altogether. What this is about is bringing people together to form the universal One, the great synchronization of human vibration in a global mesh of energy, like the planet in Avatar. That is the real goal. We are all one person. One spirit. I am inside you, and you are inside me. (Not really.) But anyway, do not allow yourselves to forget the higher purpose of what we are doing. Oh, and we are totally going to fuck the cable carriers. But that too is just a side issue. (via fakesteve.net)
What’s on your thing? “Magic”
Flip Flop Flyin’ - Much fuck it’s drawing
Drawn on iPhones.
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Using the compass and camera in the iPhone 3GS, SpotCrime gives you a realtime view of the streets and city around you, overlaid with specific crime incidents as depicted with bold, colorful icons. Want to know whether it’s safe to walk down a particular street? Aim SpotCrime at it and know right away.
— An augmentation too far. (via ihadntheard)
Reblogged from Matt Hackett
Notes on green.
Else Mobile (The Time Has Come) (via Digital Urban)
Great motion graphics portraying the mobile computing statistics surrounding our lives.
Share the tunes on your thing with that thing in your belly.
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Americans are turning to their cell phones to donate money via text message for Haitian relief efforts, pledging more than $4 million so far to organizations like the American Red Cross and Yele Haiti foundation. “All mobile texters in the United States have contributed $4 million to the Red Cross Haiti earthquake relief effort,” said Jeffrey Nelson, Verizon Wireless spokesman, who called it “the largest outpouring of charitable support by texting in history — by far.
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Now in their 20s, those in the Net Generation, according to Dr. Rosen, spend two hours a day talking on the phone and still use e-mail frequently. The iGeneration — conceivably their younger siblings — spends considerably more time texting than talking on the phone, pays less attention to television than the older group and tends to communicate more over instant-messenger networks.
Dr. Rosen said that the newest generations, unlike their older peers, will expect an instant response from everyone they communicate with, and won’t have the patience for anything less. “They’ll want their teachers and professors to respond to them immediately, and they will expect instantaneous access to everyone, because after all, that is the experience they have growing up,” he said. “They should be just like their older brothers and sisters, but they are not.”
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Part 1: The Machines Own Us:
For every good use of the technology that now controls every aspect of our lives, there’s thousands of ways it is destroying us. 1. Fuck off, cell phones. Sure, sure, in case of an emergency, blah, blah, blah. And if you are waiting on an emergency phone call, don’t go to the fucking movies. You are not important enough to need to get your phone calls immediately. Here’s how you know if you’re important enough: Are you a doctor? Are you the President? If you answered “no” to both of those questions, you are not so important. Mostly, though, cell phones guarantee that you never have to communicate with someone you don’t know. As connected as you think you are, it is actually isolating, alienating, and limiting.
For every good use of the technology that now controls every aspect of our lives, there’s thousands of ways it is destroying us. 1. Fuck off, cell phones. Sure, sure, in case of an emergency, blah, blah, blah. And if you are waiting on an emergency phone call, don’t go to the fucking movies. You are not important enough to need to get your phone calls immediately. Here’s how you know if you’re important enough: Are you a doctor? Are you the President? If you answered “no” to both of those questions, you are not so important. Mostly, though, cell phones guarantee that you never have to communicate with someone you don’t know. As connected as you think you are, it is actually isolating, alienating, and limiting.
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Psychologists generally believe that the lack of a clear separation between work and home significantly damages our relationships with loved ones. It also predisposes us to focus on the here and now at the expense of long-term goals.
By imposing these twin pressures, modern society is in danger of swapping standard of living for quality of life. We need ways to help recover those increasingly large parts of our lives that we have ceded to technology, to regain mastery over technology and learn to use it in a healthy and positive way.
My prescription is self-determination theory, developed by psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan of the University of Rochester in New York state. It identifies three vital elements of healthy personal development and functioning which I think can be used to recalibrate our relationship with technology.
