21 July 08 - Always-on/always-on-you technology
21 July Blackops Build - Not Actualy
Just had two manic weeks tripping backwards and forwards to Switzerland with my day job!
Are we losing the time to take our time?
Multitasking measures success by calls made, e-mails answered and messages responded to. Work Life Balance is calibrated by what the technology proposes, by what it makes easy. We live a contradiction: Insisting that our world is increasingly complex, we nevertheless have created a communications culture that has decreased the time available for us to sit and think, uninterrupted. We are primed to receive a quick message to which we are expected to give a rapid response. Children growing up with this may never know another way. Their experience raises a question for us all: Are we leaving enough time to take our time on the things that matter?
We spend hours keeping up with our e-mails. People speak of BlackBerry addiction. Yet in modern life we have been made into self-disciplined souls who mind the rules, the time, our tasks. Always-on/always-on-you technology takes the job of self-monitoring to a new level.
One of my BlackBerry friends said, "I don't have enough time alone with my mind"; another, "I artificially make time to think." Such concepts depend on an "I" separate from the technology, a self that can put the technology aside so as to function apart from its demands. But it's in conflict with a growing reality of lives lived in the presence of screens, whether on a laptop, palmtop, cell phone or BlackBerry. We are learning to see ourselves at one with our devices.
What to do? I love my Mobile Broadband, and my Blackberry! So I’ll just keep taking the pills!
More to follow..
Just had two manic weeks tripping backwards and forwards to Switzerland with my day job!
Are we losing the time to take our time?
Multitasking measures success by calls made, e-mails answered and messages responded to. Work Life Balance is calibrated by what the technology proposes, by what it makes easy. We live a contradiction: Insisting that our world is increasingly complex, we nevertheless have created a communications culture that has decreased the time available for us to sit and think, uninterrupted. We are primed to receive a quick message to which we are expected to give a rapid response. Children growing up with this may never know another way. Their experience raises a question for us all: Are we leaving enough time to take our time on the things that matter?
We spend hours keeping up with our e-mails. People speak of BlackBerry addiction. Yet in modern life we have been made into self-disciplined souls who mind the rules, the time, our tasks. Always-on/always-on-you technology takes the job of self-monitoring to a new level.
One of my BlackBerry friends said, "I don't have enough time alone with my mind"; another, "I artificially make time to think." Such concepts depend on an "I" separate from the technology, a self that can put the technology aside so as to function apart from its demands. But it's in conflict with a growing reality of lives lived in the presence of screens, whether on a laptop, palmtop, cell phone or BlackBerry. We are learning to see ourselves at one with our devices.
What to do? I love my Mobile Broadband, and my Blackberry! So I’ll just keep taking the pills!
More to follow..
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