Category: Technology
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Does Anyone Believe in #Predestination Anymore? | Open/Closed Humans
I’ve been reading Richard Sennett’s excellent book The Craftsman – which I highly recommend to anyone interested in ideas of technology, creativity (a word he hates, for good reason) and work. It is not a book about woodwork or William Morris. Rather, he takes a broad look at what it means to work in an engaged…
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Reflections on Apple2 : Heidegger : Technology
Excellent time at Apple2 last night. Alistair Duncan from The Garden kick-started proceedings with an introduction to Heidegger’s philosophical framework, and how this impacted his thinking on technology later on in his life after the scandals surrounding Nazism had died down a little. Though his later language is more poetry than hard logic, Heidegger is…
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Inhabitation or, no matter how brilliant, Why #GoogleWave Will Fail
I’ve been intrigued by the launch video for GoogleWave that is going round at the moment. It’s an impressive geek-fest, for one one thing. And the product does seem pretty impressive too. The phrase that has particularly caught my attention though is ‘Googlewave is what email would be if we were inventing it now.’ And…
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Apple2:Tool.Shed:Heidegger on Technology : Tuesday 13th Oct
The 2nd Apple event is happening this coming Tuesday. You really should be there. Apple is a Vaux production, a short series of conversations focused specifically on the interplay between theology and technology. This month we are really excited to have Alistair Duncan – an architect from IBM and member of The Garden in Brighton…
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Video Gaming, Novels and the lack of Psychological Empathy
Just watched Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe – a sideways history of video games. It’s hilarious, if rather pointless, but does brilliantly bemoan the lack of high-quality narrative in most games. It reminded my of a fantastic piece on video games in the ever-fabulous Believer Magazine. In it, video game journalist Heather Chaplin notes: ‘Video games are…