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Charlotte Freeman's avatar

I'm in Paris for the week, to see the Rothko show -- Rothko, an artist whose work is all, as Benjamin would say, aura. Rothko, who is unphotographable. Which is why I had to spend 15 hours on planes to see this show, because the catalog can't do any of it justice. And yet, in every room, people taking phone photos. All over Paris, people taking selfies. As if one isn't here without putting it online. It makes me glad to be old (tho also glad for the phone I've been clutching, with it's maps and metro ticket embedded). I also find that now that I've left the platform (which isn't a solution for anyone but me) I spend far less time on Notes. I've also reverted to reading most of the newsletters as email. Just to bring down the noise level.

Enjoy the cabin. What a resource they are, the FS cabins ....

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Sara's avatar

I love this world and just want to be more in it, and the phone often keeps me from doing that, despite all the restrictions I, like you, have put in place. Curious to hear how the not smart phone experiment goes. We bought one for our oldest, and it was stupid expensive and then the carrier stopped supporting it. So annoying.

The cars analogy really got to me. I read somewhere but now can’t find where that the Māori and other indigenous cultures had tests for new technologies that had to be considered by the community before the community decided whether or not to let them in. It was a way of prioritizing their values first and seeing if the new technology could be congruent with them and/or what limits would be necessary for them to be congruent. What a concept!

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