tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343773643758367735.post2444752961006062241..comments2023-10-29T11:15:37.625-04:00Comments on sleeping alone and starting out early: technologies as sleeping policemen: or, how I learned to stop worrying and...Jenna McWilliamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767988531102621970noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343773643758367735.post-72786412946630992802010-01-25T00:39:13.840-05:002010-01-25T00:39:13.840-05:00Thanks Jenna!
Hi Jenna,
A rich metaphor that grea...Thanks Jenna!<br />Hi Jenna,<br /><br />A rich metaphor that greatly helped me clear my thoughts about the relationship between people and technology. After struggling with my thoughts, it made me realize that I was mixing between the two roles people can assume while handling with technology: users or makers (or both), and your metaphor serves well to illuminate all of them. It is in our basic urges to project ourselves on the world and be projected upon that these two roles emerge; a dance between organizing and understanding the world - both in its humanity and materiality.<br /><br />AmmarAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343773643758367735.post-87977018548102806392010-01-21T01:40:47.389-05:002010-01-21T01:40:47.389-05:00Great entry, you summed up pretty well the article...Great entry, you summed up pretty well the article and your example of the speed bumps successfully illustrated the way technology affects and is affected by its interaction with people.Computación y Sociedadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02770380863066505235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343773643758367735.post-83691378697669151062010-01-20T21:54:18.852-05:002010-01-20T21:54:18.852-05:00I think you are really onto something with the spe...I think you are really onto something with the speed bump analogy. When I got my first car I avoided speed bumps, like driving right in the middle of the road so only the passenger side would get bumped, not I. And when I had passengers I often took the bump and narrowly let their side glide the curb, or car, or whatever was the barrier to the road. <br /><br />So to do students avoid speed bumps, err internet filters and the like, in novel and creative ways. Even though these things are made for our protection, we still put so much time and effort into going around them!Jeffrey Kaplanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480367675018379993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343773643758367735.post-29799702985670168902010-01-20T21:22:04.517-05:002010-01-20T21:22:04.517-05:00never thought of sleeping policemen or speedbumps ...never thought of sleeping policemen or speedbumps as actors, but lo and behold they seem to exert quite a bit of agency now that i think about it. good job. i love the sentence "everything mediates everything" which makes me think of a new metaphor for technology - technology as infinite regress.... or as you put it technology as a rabbit hole. everything mediates everything in the ecosystem that is a giant rabbit hole.The Untwitterablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17335659398207623037noreply@blogger.com