Here's great article that talks about how some technology is NOT
causing social isolation.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/does-technology-reduce-social-isolation/
...which references this Pew study:
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/18--Social-Isolation-and-New-Technology.aspx
Hi Dave,
Wanted to let you know your comment really rang a bell for me:
*People are lonely, not b/c they are wearing headphones. People are
lonely b/c we have disintegrated the extended and now the nuclear
family and replaced it with materialism and false ideologies*.
I wonder how we as
I struggle with this same thing. I think its why I went into education
(among other reasons). But since we have all been effected (me
included: if you only knew how much TV I watch, e.g.) by these
realities, it makes it really hard for any of us to truly push out of
them.
But this is why I have
Well, of course you are right.
Unfortunately, the reality for most of us is that the technology is
created and it is our job to do our best to make it not suck.
Very very very (way too) few of us begin our work truly with open
ended discovery of needs/motivations. We almost always start with
Ali,
Thanks for your post (and David for your reply).
Yours is a common concern of mine as well. In my experience, design
efforts usually begin at the wrong place-- a client throws a
stick and the design team happily fetches up a technological
treatment to a problem they can't fully describe.
Thank you Michael and Dave for your replies...
Today I was attending a lecture session by Adam Greenfield about
Elements of a Networked Urbanism. The ideas he was showing us
were great, cities with great level of intelligence which could be
our future cities but still I've found the same struggle
I think it is a false correlation to assume that technology caused the
problem. Way too easy. B/c there are tons of cases where technology
has been used to break isolation. Look at what Twitter and YouTube
have done. Look up the work of Michael Wesch on YouTube and you'll
see who groups of people
Hello...In last few months of my Study as Interaction Design Student I
was wondering if we really forget that Interaction design is here to
helps us to make our life easier or just to makes it more complex and
problematic?
I think that we invent new technologies and then trying to
implemented
