- Have each other at a distance we can control - The Goldilocks Effect
- We only pay attention to what we want to in a presentation, and never get to hear what we don't want to hear, this is a problem
- Conversations problem - we can't control what we want to say, we edit ourselves, we are just right, not too much, not too little
- Cleaning up relationships with technology
- Good for connection but not for really understanding each other
- Facebook makes up for feeling like no one is listening to me
- We're developing social robots for the elderly (robodog)
- We're lonely, but we are afraid of intimacy
- I share therefor I am
- Not suggesting to turn away from the devices, just make room for other stuff
Flashback Friday, a column on feminist notions ... To be fair - it's difficult to think of a non-self-defining feminist woman as anything but a tool of the patriarchy. I have to concentrate on the fact that even though a woman would not call herself a feminist, she would never endorse footbinding (to name a radical example) and it doesn't necessarily mean she is a doormat either. In fact, some of my favorite women scorn my feminism and hate it when they are judged solely on their marital status or gender. Ironically if you look at films made during the so-called liberal 60s and 70s you will see that movies align the woman's role less to what is happening politically in the big wide world and more to what is happening in pornography. The rise of the snuff movie mirrored the rise of violence towards women in the movies, serial killer paradise. Pornography always centers on the woman - probably in an attempt to hide the size of the penis. From my perspective, I am less un...
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