Look around you. Submit here.Tumblr (3.0; @whatsonyourthing)http://whatsonyourthing.com/<a href="http://joekraus.com/were-creating-a-culture-of-distraction">"We’re creating a culture of distraction"</a>: <blockquote> <p>A few weeks ago I gave this rough presentation on a topic called “SlowTech”. I wanted to cover three things</p> <ol><li>We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated.</li> <li>We are losing some very important things by doing this. We threaten the key ingredients behind creativity and insight by filling up all our “gap” time with stimulation. And we inhibit real human connection when we prioritize our phones over our the people right in front of us.</li> <li>What can we do about it? Is this path inevitable or can balance be restored?</li> </ol></blockquote>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/24008009231http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/24008009231Tue, 29 May 2012 11:49:17 -0700<a href="http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/desiring-machines/">Desiring Machines – The New Inquiry</a>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/23999623401http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/23999623401Tue, 29 May 2012 08:41:57 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rsy89Cyp1qzfn93o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>“MoMA” would like to use your current location</p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/23984304992http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/23984304992Mon, 28 May 2012 23:06:08 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4i2rdhAZh1qzfn93o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>via: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/111626127367496192147/albums/5745849874061604161">https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/111626127367496192147/albums/5745849874061604161</a></p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/23638817560http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/23638817560Wed, 23 May 2012 17:02:01 -0700<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_d6KuiuteIA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Introducing the Leap:</p> <p>“Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements.”</p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/23490947537http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/23490947537Mon, 21 May 2012 11:48:46 -0700<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/business/in-idisorder-a-look-at-mobile-device-addiction-review.html?_r=2">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/business/in-idisorder-a-look-at-mobile-device-addiction-review.html?_r=2</a></p> <p>(Source: <a href="http://twitter.com/palafo/status/202949899170484224">http://twitter.com/palafo/status/202949899170484224</a>)</p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/23206892107http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/23206892107Wed, 16 May 2012 19:34:09 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m44vi4r24h1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/23182341745/are-you-phone-enough">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Are you <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/leslieawood">phone enough</a>?</p> </blockquote>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/23182626729http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/23182626729Wed, 16 May 2012 14:00:53 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3vsh9AlEh1qzfn93o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Siri: What’s the best smartphone ever?</p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22865615217http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22865615217Fri, 11 May 2012 16:12:45 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ta0iNyrQ1qzya49o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://theanimalblog.tumblr.com/post/22779955083/an-orangutan-points-to-an-object-on-an-ipad-after" class="tumblr_blog">theanimalblog</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>An orangutan points to an object on an iPad after being told that word, at Jungle Island in Miami<strong class="credit">.  </strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/9256745/Pictures-of-the-day-10-May-2012.html?frame=2215555">Picture: Pat Carter/AP</a></p></blockquote>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22783074287http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22783074287Thu, 10 May 2012 09:14:51 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3sizb2C9S1qzfn93o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Michael Kupperman - The New Yorker</p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22765766624http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22765766624Wed, 09 May 2012 21:54:47 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3l8hlUNAY1qzfn93o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Interface.</p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22502170095http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22502170095Sat, 05 May 2012 23:24:57 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3l8d3ICJj1qzfn93o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tech</p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22502069870http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22502069870Sat, 05 May 2012 23:22:15 -0700<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/magazine/angry-birds-farmville-and-other-hyperaddictive-stupid-games.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all">Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’ - NYTimes.com</a>: <p>Tetris was invented exactly when and where you would expect — in a<br/> Soviet computer lab in 1984 — and its game play reflects this origin.<br/> The enemy in Tetris is not some identifiable villain (Donkey Kong,<br/> Mike Tyson, Carmen Sandiego) but a faceless, ceaseless, reasonless<br/> force that threatens constantly to overwhelm you, a churning<br/> production of blocks against which your only defense is a repetitive,<br/> meaningless sorting. It is bureaucracy in pure form, busywork with no<br/> aim or end, impossible to avoid or escape. And the game’s final insult<br/> is that it annihilates free will. Despite its obvious futility,<br/> somehow we can’t make ourselves stop rotating blocks. Tetris, like all<br/> the stupid games it spawned, forces us to choose to punish ourselves.</p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22372482550http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22372482550Thu, 03 May 2012 23:35:11 -0700<a href="http://blog.sfmoma.org/2012/05/emancipated-spectators/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social+media&utm_content=phone+pics&utm_campaign=blog+links">SFMOMA | OPEN SPACE » EMANCIPATED SPECTATOR(s)</a>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22279908731http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/22279908731Wed, 02 May 2012 15:30:05 -0700<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9c6W4CCU9M4?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>This seems very isolating. This (if it comes to fruition) will create a more eery and uncanny sense that people are not truly <em>there</em> when they walk down the street.</p> <p>When we see a Project Glass inductee mumbling at the ground, twitching their eyes from left to right, the idiot gesticulating to and yelling at the unseen via bluetooth may seem normal. </p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/21251667669http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/21251667669Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:26:17 -0700google<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w06zvM2x_lw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>neurowear vol.1 “necomimi” （脳波で動く猫耳） (by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w06zvM2x_lw&feature=player_embedded">neurowear</a>)</p> <p>This is amazing and creepy. It starts in Japan, then…</p> <p>I love how the guy she walks by is wearing a life-recorder device like it ain’t no thing. </p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/21251136159http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/21251136159Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:16:42 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m20uhyPzPe1qzfn93o1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?</p> <p>(via <a href="http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801894107&qty=1&viewMode=1&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y">The Johns Hopkins University Press</a>)</p> <p>“Paul R. Josephson here explores these utopian visions of technology—and their unanticipated human and environmental costs. He examines the role of technology in communist plans and policies and the interplay between ideology and technological development. He shows that while technology was a symbol of regime legitimacy and an engine of progress, the changes it spurred were not unequivocally positive. Instead of achieving a worker’s paradise, socialist technologies exposed the proletariat to dangerous machinery and deadly pollution; rather than freeing women from exploitation in family and labor, they paradoxically created for them the dual—and exhausting—burdens of mother and worker. The future did not work. “</p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/20540483785http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/20540483785Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:37:10 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1z3e5E6871qzfn93o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hillary Clinton</p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/20483592330http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/20483592330Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:54:05 -0700<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/37254322" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Paper by FiftyThree (by <a href="http://vimeo.com/37254322">FiftyThree</a>)</p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/20355484138http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/20355484138Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:26:07 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1oi0bqGrH1qzfn93o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Two triangles fucking - Amanda Curreri</p>http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/20155080874http://whatsonyourthing.com/post/20155080874Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:36:11 -0700