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Designing Spiritual Technology: Some thoughts on Biomimicry
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Monday, August 29, 2011. Some thoughts on Biomimicry. Janine Benyus (2004). Biomimicry: What Would Nature Do Here? In Ausubel, K. and Harpignies, J.P., eds., Nature’s Operating Instructions: The True Biotechnologies. Sierra Club Books: San Francisco. 8217; or ‘How can I reduce the energy involved in sandblasting? 8217; A more helpful question might be ‘How does nature stay clean? 8217;” In short, we should be asking questions along the lines of “What would nature do here? January 29, 2015 at 10:08 AM.
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Designing Spiritual Technology: July 2011
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Monday, July 25, 2011. The Internet doesn't understand friendship. Great quote from Bill Maher on his show 15/7/11:. Now that the social network, Google , has arrived expressly to try and destroy Facebook and Twitter, the way Facebook and Twitter blew away MySpace, right after MySpace obliterated Friendster . . . the Internet must admit that it really doesn't understand the concept of friendship." (Bill Maher 2011). Tuesday, July 12, 2011. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Designing Spiritual Technology: The Human-Nature Dance
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Monday, August 29, 2011. Malcolm Margolin (2004). The Human-Nature Dance: People as a Keystone Species. In Ausubel, K. and Harpignies, J.P., eds., Nature’s Operating Instructions: The True Biotechnologies. Sierra Club Books: San Francisco. This chapter is incredibly eye-opening. Margolin describes a worldview that seems so foreign:. Or even more importantly, Is this individuated living sustainable? I would argue it’s not. January 19, 2015 at 11:49 AM. Get these individuals directly into concerns and enqu...
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Designing Spiritual Technology: August 2011
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Monday, August 29, 2011. Paul Hawken (2004). Natural Capitalism: Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm? In Ausubel, K. and Harpignies, J.P., eds., Nature’s Operating Instructions: The True Biotechnologies. Sierra Club Books: San Francisco. Amory and Hunter Lovins (2004). Natural Capitalism: Where the Rubber Meets the Road In Ausubel, K. and Harpignies, J.P., eds., Nature’s Operating Instructions: The True Biotechnologies. Sierra Club Books: San Francisco. This is Hawken’s grand, inspiring vision:. Wade Davis...
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Designing Spiritual Technology: April 2011
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Saturday, April 2, 2011. Is it just me, or isn't this insane? I've been watching a lot of the TED talks recently, with horror. 'Ideas worth spreading' is their confident catchphrase. I can't help but thinking that many of the ideas would be disastrous if they caught on… and even more worryingly, they are being lauded by TED, hailed as the greatest thoughts of our society, and applauded eagerly by the audiences. We shall be liberated by greater access to information! I would think that without any discern...
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Designing Spiritual Technology: November 2010
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010. The Path - spiritual Facebook-ing? I was pointed to this article on the BBC: http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11793847. Is this a fair comparison to Facebook? There is some evidence - cited by the article - that humans can only manage 50 friends, so the notion that Facebook promotes, that we can have 1,000 if we wanted, cheapens the very word "friend". Thursday, November 25, 2010. Becoming a Force of Nature. Part 3 – Becoming a Force of Nature. I suppose the idea is that i...
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Designing Spiritual Technology: September 2010
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010. The Two (and Thousand) Faces of the Virtual. Ryan, M.-L. (2001). Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. Chapter 1 – The Two (and Thousand) Faces of the Virtual. In this chapter, Ryan explicates the difference between virtual as illusion (drawing on Baudrillard) and virtual as potential (drawing on Lévy). Ryan’s point is not a judgment about the relative merits of eith...
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Designing Spiritual Technology: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Moderating Our Informational Desires. Schultze, Q. J. (2002). Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age. Baker Academic: Grand Rapids, MI, USA. Chapter 2 - Moderating Our Informational Desires. Schultze argues in this chapter that with regard to our informational wants, we practice " pleonexia. Schultze mentions a snarky little website "Recognizing our condition as tired Web surfers with little direction" (54), which greets people with the following:.
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Designing Spiritual Technology: The Internet doesn't understand friendship
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Monday, July 25, 2011. The Internet doesn't understand friendship. Great quote from Bill Maher on his show 15/7/11:. Now that the social network, Google , has arrived expressly to try and destroy Facebook and Twitter, the way Facebook and Twitter blew away MySpace, right after MySpace obliterated Friendster . . . the Internet must admit that it really doesn't understand the concept of friendship." (Bill Maher 2011). January 23, 2015 at 11:20 AM. Packers along with Movers - Eliminate Move Tension.
