{"id":32339,"date":"2014-08-26T16:22:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kenyatta-boingboing-digital-tools-have-a\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T12:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:48:35","slug":"kenyatta-boingboing-digital-tools-have-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kenyatta-boingboing-digital-tools-have-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-32339 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kenyatta-boingboing-digital-tools-have-a\/attachment\/32340\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nawwfuIB8C1sstwo4o1_1280-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/finalbossform.com\/post\/95820704355\/boingboing-digital-tools-have-a-mind-of-their\">kenyatta<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.tumblr.com\/post\/95817663272\/digital-tools-have-a-mind-of-their-own-yours\">boingboing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/08\/26\/digital-tools-have-a-mind-of-t.html\">Digital tools have a mind of their own: yours<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clive Thompson\u2019s<\/strong> says that there are three principal biases that today\u2019s digital tools introduce to human thought.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>First, they allow for prodigious external memory: smartphones, hard drives, cameras, and sensors routinely record more information than any tool before them. We\u2019re shifting from a stance of rarely recording our ideas and the events of our lives to doing it habitually.<\/p>\n<p>Second, today\u2019s tools make it easier for us to find connections\u2014between ideas, pictures, people, bits of news\u2014that were previously invisible.<\/p>\n<p>Third, they encourage a superfluity of communication and publishing.<\/p>\n<p>This last feature has many surprising effects that are often ill understood. Any economist can tell you that when you suddenly increase the availability of a resource, people do more things with it, which also means they do increasingly unpredictable things. As electricity became cheap and ubiquitous in the West, its role expanded from things you\u2019d expect\u2014like nighttime lighting\u2014to the unexpected and seemingly trivial: battery driven toy trains, electric blenders, vibrators.<\/p>\n<p>The superfluity of communication today has produced everything from a rise in crowd-organized projects like Wikipedia to curious new forms of expression: television-show recaps, map-based storytelling, discussion threads that spin out of a photo posted to a smartphone app, Amazon product-review threads wittily hijacked for political satire. Now, none of these three digital biases is immutable, because they\u2019re the product of software and hardware, and can easily be altered or ended if the architects of today\u2019s tools (often corporate and governmental) decide to regulate the tools or find they\u2019re not profitable enough. But right now, these big effects dominate our current and near-term landscape.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Go read this, pls.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kenyatta: boingboing: Digital tools have a mind of their own: yours Clive Thompson\u2019s says that there are three principal biases that today\u2019s digital tools introduce to human thought. First, they allow for prodigious external memory: smartphones, hard drives, cameras, and sensors routinely record more information than any tool before them. We\u2019re shifting from a stance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8pB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32341,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32339\/revisions\/32341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}