I Hate Technology
Recently I have had this feeling that I wish technology did not exist. I hate text messages and talking to people on the internet. It seems like it completely voids all human contact. Its artificial every thing gets lost in translation and there are so many more things that are wrong with it that I cant even begin to stress my disgust with my laptop/cell phone at this time.
I want to delete my facebook account throw away my cell phone. Call people from a pay phone in a gas station.
I dream of a simpler time. A time where people went to each others home to visit instead of having a virtual get together in some chat room. A time where people called each other on the phone and had actual conversations instead of string of fucking sad faces and shit… over text messaging.
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Articles from blogs I follow around the net
Speed is Not Conducive to Wisdom
Speed has become the primary virtue of the modern world. Everything is sacrificed to it. Move fast (and break things, not as a goal but as a consequence). Wisdom requires allowing yourself to be undone by experience: An opinion dismantled by reality. An artif…
via Jim Nielsen’s Blog April 15, 2026“To build a thing that immediately feels like you’ve had it forever is very hard to do.”
What Version History, a YouTube show from The Verge, does really well is revisiting older tech products from today’s perspective without allowing nostalgia to take over. This episode about the Western Electric 500 – the canonical American land…
via Unsung April 15, 2026Generated by openring