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Where Things Disappear Into Pure Functionality

June 14, 2011

Lars Svendsen: “Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound. Technology involves the dematerialization of the world, where things disappear into pure functionality. We have long since passed a stage where we could keep track of technology. We scurry along behind, as is perhaps particularly clear in IT, where hardware and software have always become obsolete before most of the users have learned how to use them.”

tags: boredom, technology

A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy →

Read this as part of The Best Software Writing by Joel Spolsky.

tags: communication, community, group, internet, shirky, sociology, software, spolsky, technology | # | comment Dec. 20th, 2005

Matt Haughey: "getting plopped into a strange town and wanting some good food is usually a pretty difficult problem to solve" →

The solution, of course, is to combine existing technologies.

tags: Toronto, food, mathowie, technology | # | comment Nov. 19th, 2005

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