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| The Web’s Grain | 2024-05-20T11:00:00Z | 🌾 | 2015-02-18T00:00:00Z | https://frankchimero.com/blog/2015/the-webs-grain/ |
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A wonderful presentation on the limitations of the web, and how to adapt to them and foster our joy in the web as a medium. I love it! |
A wonderful presentation on the limitations of the web, and how to adapt to them and foster our joy in the web as a medium. I love it!
Highlights
The size of what we’re making is unknown until we know what we’re putting there.
Technology only adds more—it is never this or that; it is always this and that.
Using technology to solve the problems it causes is as futile as cleaning a grass stain by rubbing grass on it.
the less you have to do, the less say you have.
But if taken too far, convenience becomes a Trojan Horse. We cede too much control and become dependent on something we can no longer steer.
Then, we’re left to trust in the benevolence of those who have the power to mold our dependencies.
it starts with a question: what is technology’s role in your life? And what, really, do you want from it?