Whatif we care about our technologie
I like this! Our world runs based on what we pay attention to, and what is attention and a willingness to do something about what is noticed but care? If we don't care about something, only the sensational or head turning is revealed to us-- it seems like we lose the everyday
language of innovation is generally reserved for new andcomputationally intensive “bright and shiny tools,
It's interesting that the definition (or the impression) of the innovation/repair dichotomy leaves little room for maintenance. It's almost like we never see a plateau, or little course corrections visibly indicated for a technology simply because they might not be interesting. We're constantly looking for new pieces of information: things to be proud of and things to solve, but we don't quite let ourselves stay in that intermediary stage without feeling stagnant or getting bored.
The first is the extent to which such work is rendered invisibleunder our normal modes of picturing and theorizing technology.
It's interesting as a commentary for people too-- when we feel broken or in need of repair, there is nothing you can see on the outside that would indicate it. We kind of act like these finished pictures, and there's no way to really see us in construction (at least, in the construction's entirety).
key themes and problems facing new media and technology scholarshiptoday.
It's interesting how this thinking is so dichotomous-- we oscillate between both the pain and beauty of what's broken and feel torn about what to believe (or more specifically, what's more helpful to believe). You can protect your peace al you want, but is it worth it to not see problems in the world without solutions and without an inherently positive twist on them?