Agraphia - riffs by Ben Fridge: Recent Episodes
Ben Fridge
The written word consumes my work. Agraphia is the impairment or loss of a previous ability to write. Here, it's a chance to think in a new medium about technology. To think about how it was made and how we can change it. About how it affects our lives and how we affect it. About noticing its flaws and choosing to do something...
Why or why not?
Different questions, different answers.
Explore this third and final framework with which we can examine tech...
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What truths are inherent within the medium of podcasts?
What values does this technology enforce?
Listen to find out...
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Setting up a framework for further discussion...
Define your terms:
Epistemic Capacity - better communal sense-making for how we know what we know.
Limbic Hijack - the way technology hijacks our paleolithic emotions and brain to drive clicks and behavior.
Epidemic (existential, exponential) Consequences (risk)- the current state of an increasing amount of catastrophic risks, increasing faster than we are solving them.
Further reading 'n listening:
// Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death
//Your Undivided Attention, a podcast from the Center for Humane Technology. Episode: A problem well stated is half solved// TheHoustonWriter.com
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Technology can't decode itself. Together, we can.
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