I miss pizza boxes. I understand the need for ad space but are there certain spaces and surfaces that should be sacred? Pizza does taste better when eaten on a red and white checkered tablecloth, or delivered in a box with a happy Italian chef on it.
Allow me to get a little self-helpish for a moment. Things do not always add up and that’s OK. Take a deep breath and remember it’s all going to work simply because you tried.
I was recently on a research trip in Atlanta and as I was trying to find my way through one of the many beautiful Alantonian office parks I came across a marvel of human engineering. The sidewalk that goes nowhere. It begins just at the base of the photo and dead ends at the top right and left. I'm trying to understand why this was put here in this way? My hypothesis is that it's a waiting island for car pool passengers. But it's still strange there is no side walk that leads you to this area. There was no one around to ask so I guess we'll never know.
I like to stand in front of blank sheets of paper and mentally project drawings onto them. It's much easier than using my hands or any clunky human tools.
I just went to Amazon.com to look up a book title and the book was already on the homepage as a recommendation for me.
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Summary
An application removes all interface from your computer except for one mode, a repeated keyboard or voice event is required from the user to keep the application from erasing and reformatting the users' volume.
Abstract
If so much of our current mental state (i.e., what in actuality constitutes our worlds) is about constant distractions and just simply not being able to slow down, then how about finding more drastic measures for slowing the world down? A mental space must be created to allow for slowing down time to focus the thoughts. In meditation the general idea is to fine one thought (mantra) and repeat it continuously to induce a state of detachment from mind, really the "thinking" process.
The things that hold our attentions and create our distractions are the things that we hold so dear and we interface with those things through the screen. This is our window into knowledge of information "in the world". Our memory, even with sufficient training, could not possibly retain The reason this information is so crucial to us as knowledge of the worldThe Death Machine takes advantage of this relationship by creating a barrier between you and this precious information.
Summary
A system that allows me, a consumer, end-user, and wrangler to monitor my consumption patterns and ecological footprint on a minute-byminute basis. The system will work based on recommendation and reputation economies.
Abstract
As a consumer of oil and oil-based goods I can, if I desire, through a long and arduous process monitor my footprint in some limited form. I can never fully know the impact and extent of my true footprint but I will eventually desire to know this as a consumer and businesses will desire this data as well and cater to it.
If the objects and processes (SPIMES) that make-up my footprint can be tracked through an extensive set of meta-data consisting of commercial life and user metrics then my behaviors may likewise be tracked as well. This could be combined to create a psychometric meta-data about my footprint behaviors.
Focus is not a behavior associated with television. The image is complete, no elements seen no isolation. Watching newscasters we rarely, if ever look at their faces, let alone their eyes. Here we focus as if they were focusing on us. The effect is a set of new emotions buried within the frame of the eyes.
Fig 1. Nine faces, eight male, one female
As personal computers transition into more ubiquitous modes of existence within the human domain interface will change and interaction will regain its former meaning in the communicative spaces between people and shared space. This transition coupled with aggressive needs for supplementation and our capacity for integrating technology into our lives will restore
Modern supplementation has added a layer of mental need to the immediate physical needs these technologies have attended to for so many centuries. And the degree of supplementation of any society is directly proportional to its capacity for creating increasingly complex materials and processes of manufacturing.
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