From e462d0a76b47f57f177d4a50755447b2ced1a773 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: JP Hastings-Spital Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 13:52:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Imports --- content/bookmarks/shaping-the-future.md | 9 ++- .../the-home-as-a-place-of-production.md | 55 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 content/bookmarks/the-home-as-a-place-of-production.md diff --git a/content/bookmarks/shaping-the-future.md b/content/bookmarks/shaping-the-future.md index 05f71b31..c5b39c52 100644 --- a/content/bookmarks/shaping-the-future.md +++ b/content/bookmarks/shaping-the-future.md @@ -1,13 +1,20 @@ --- title: Shaping the future -emoji: 🚀 date: "2024-09-02T10:54:02Z" +emoji: "\U0001F680" bookmarkOf: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping-the-future.html references: bookmark: url: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping-the-future.html type: entry name: Shaping the future + summary: (One of the things that goes with being an SF writer is that people expect + you to talk about, well, the future. Last week, engineering consultancy TNG + Technology Consulting invited me to Munich to address one of their technology + open days. Here's a transcript of my talk, which discusses certain under-considered + side effects of some technologies that you're probably already becoming familiar + with. Note that this is a long blog entry — even by my verbose standards — so + you'll need to hit on the "continue reading" link to see the whole thing.) --- What does the future of technology hold, to a predictive thinker in the year 2007? diff --git a/content/bookmarks/the-home-as-a-place-of-production.md b/content/bookmarks/the-home-as-a-place-of-production.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9a34a5c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bookmarks/the-home-as-a-place-of-production.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +title: The home as a place of production +date: "2024-09-09T12:51:03Z" +emoji: "\U0001F3E1" +publishDate: "2024-03-27T17:42:27Z" +bookmarkOf: https://cityquitters.substack.com/p/the-home-as-a-place-of-production +references: + bookmark: + url: https://cityquitters.substack.com/p/the-home-as-a-place-of-production + type: entry + name: The home as a place of production + summary: Diverse work and the joy of making + author: Karen Rosenkranz +--- +Bringing more creation into our homes as a way to feel connected to our surroundings and communities. I couldn't appreciate this article more! + +### Highlights + +> Connectivity and the distraction it enables should be contained. + +--- + +> Everything is optimised for convenience, comfort and safety for the consumer (and surveillance/value extraction for the corporations providing it). +> +> This vision doesn’t sound very smart to me. Not only is it incredibly dull, it’s also totally disempowering. + +--- + +> turning the home into a place of production again (and I don’t mean productivity!). + +--- + +> This home of the future is one of reduced complexity, a place filled with fewer things, but things we know how to care for and repair. + +--- + +> Part of the appeal of leaving the city is the potential to create homes (and lives) that allow for a greater diversity of activities. + +--- + +> As AI-generated content becomes ubiquitous, ‘made by humans’ will become a quality trademark. + +It'll be interesting to see whether "made by humans" is used as a pro-positive selling point, or whether "made without AI" is used as an anti-negative one. Currently I'm seeing more of the second (eg. [Not by AI](https://notbyai.fyi/)) + +--- + +> Everything we can do to loosen the grip of consumer capitalism on our lives helps us reclaim a bit of autonomy. + +--- + +> These endeavours become even more empowering if they’re done in community. + +--- + +> Let’s start here. Let’s replace personal comfort, convenience and safety with communal vitality, pleasure and agency.