As machines do more work for us, we do less; we’re less capable on our own. As machines store and organize more, we get sloppy, forget our friends’ phone number, birthday, heartfelt concerns. Maybe this gleeful step into virtual reality is the easy road of cyber purgatory. We’re not dead, but we’re not really living either.
- Regulars
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Difficult technology is rewarding
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Letters
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Call me a fence-sitter
14 - Culturosities
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The material culture that defines us: The 'like' button
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Old geezers: The Luddites
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Artists commit air-raid on war
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A northern perspective on the Ground- Zero Mosque
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Anarchist Christians unite online
19 - Cyper Utopia
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How Facebook helps me be a stay-at-home dad and community activist
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Imperfect prose on thursdays
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Hope for a fake life
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Electronic hitchhiker
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I long to see you: 2 Timothy by email
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I Google banana bread
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When is activism slacktivism*?
31 - Cyber Dystopia
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High tech grief
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Technology, half-chewed
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New platforms for old oppressions
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Technology hip-check
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Thelowercaseletter"i"
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Cyberforgiveness
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Righteousness in the Age of Technology
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Imagine while plummeting
45 - Newtopia
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The key(board) to a better life?
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Keeping the pitbull off the bed
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Albert Borgmann on taming technology
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Seven criteria for the adoption of new technology
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Simple thoughts forengaging technology
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Kids know how to help
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Shit and toil
61 - Experiments
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Sew by bike
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Ghetto life without acomputer
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Building materials speakfor themselves
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Go fast to fare well
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Band canoes gig to gig
66 - Civil Disobedience
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Plane Stupid
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Streets are for feet
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Guerilla haiku
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Protest the Pope
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Latvia’s cyber Robin Hoodarrested
70 - News
- UN sends female task force to Haiti to curb rape epidemic 71
- Guelph communityprotests Sikh temple 71
- Trendy makeup companycomes clean – sort of 72
- Community seeks bigbucks to stop porn 72
- Japanese archbishop visits New York, calls for abolition ofnuclear weapons 73
- Reviews
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The Routes of Man:How Roads are Changing the World andthe Way We Live Today
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The Peep Diaries:How We’re Learning to Love WatchingOurselves and Our Neighbours
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You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto
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Into Eternity
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Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
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