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tech perspectives in a high-tech world ... I myself like computers and the associated tools. I like the computer I am writing on, and do not intend to bite the hand that allows me to publish these words so easily. But I do NOT want to write about such things. There is no shortage of words written about tech. Here in Silicon Valley (and in the Silicon Alleys and all the other places that aspire to cutting edge technological distinction), it's important to pay attention to the low tech things that survive ... these artifacts haven't been rendered obsolete for the simple reason that they serve humanity just fine, even if they are not superstars of progress.So over the course of 18 months I wrote exactly fifty essays about the kinds of things and places that stand in opposition to the overwhelming flood of leading-edge tech that I am surrounded by. I loved the project. Now, it is finished (for reasons explained in one of my last posts), and I've set up this page because my blogging software failed me. For all the push-button convenience of blog-tech, there's no easy way to turn a reverse chronological journal (a.k.a., a blog) into a book of essays. Good thing I know a little HTML. "... a fantastic celebration" One of my very favorite blogs is an astounding achievement by my friend Dave. It is brilliant for many reasons, but most of all because it is - and I love this, wherever I find it - an embodiment of the thing it describes. Which is to say that Dave writes as a high-tech person about the benefits of slowing down, and he does so slowly. When I see a fresh post in my RSS reader, I (first) exalt, and (then) check the clock and the level of my beverage. Because a fresh post on (low) tech writer means a substantial investment of time." |
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