15/09/2014
Technology has two faces. We all feel it, but sometimes can’t find words to describe it. Ebooks are the best example to show the 0-1 nature of emotions the technology evokes.
On one side, there is a beautiful, calming world of printed books and reading. Free from electronic-based impatience, distractions, and failures.
Keeping calm and quiet is not necessarily pushing the world forward. And here comes the opposite attitude. Technology brings the excitement, helps look into the future, and make us brave enough to try to shape it.
Cory Doctorow said once “This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.”
The whole idea is not about the choice between using or not using technology. The challenge is to use it right...
