Quotes About Digital

Much in the same way that the "innovation" of highly processed foods in the mid-twentieth century led to a global health crisis, the unintended side effects of digital communication tools—a sort of social fast food—are proving to be similarly worrisome.

I call it digital minimalism, and it applies the belief that less can be more to our relationship with digital tools.

Don't click "Like." Ever. And while you're at it, stop leaving comments on social media posts as well. No "so cute!" or "so cool!" Remain silent.

The goal is not to simply give yourself a break from technology, but to instead spark a permanent transformation of your digital life. The detoxing is merely a step that supports this transformation.

A digital adviser named Ilona, for example, set up a regular schedule for calling & texting her friends - which supported her most serious relationships at the cost of some of the more lightweight touches many have come to expect. "In the end, I just accepted the fact that I would miss some vents in their lives, but that this was worthwhile for the mental energy it would save me to not be on social media.

Earlier I noted that we seem to have stumbled backward into a digital life we didn't sign up for. As I'll argue next, it's probably more accurate to say that we were pushed into it by the high-end device companies and attention economy conglomerates who discovered there are vast fortunes to be made in a culture dominated by gadgets and apps.

el crítico social Laurence Scott acierta de pleno cuando describe la existencia moderna hiperconectada como una existencia en la que "un momento puede resultar extrañamente monótono si existe únicamente en sí mismo.

that network tools are distracting us from work that requires unbroken concentration, while simultaneously degrading our capacity to remain focused.

Face-to-face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience. We attend to tone & nuance. On the other hand, when we communicate on our digital devices, we learn different habits. As a true digital minimalist, Turkle approaches these issues from a standpoint of smarter use of digital communication tools, not blanket abstention. "My argument is not anti-technology." She writes. "It's pro-conversation.

you have duties during the declutter beyond following your technology rules. For this process to succeed, you must also spend this period trying to rediscover what's important to you and what you enjoy outside the world of the always-on, shiny digital.

Declaring freedom from your smartphone is probably the most serious step you can take toward embracing the attention resistance. This follows because smartphones are the preferred Trojan horse of the digital attention economy.

A foundational theme in digital minimalism is that new technology, when used with care and intention, creates a better life than either Luddism or mindless adoption.

Bugün sürdürmekte oldu?umuz dijital hayatlar? kendimiz seçmedik. Daha ziyade, bir avuç teknoloji yat?r?mc?s?n?n ç?karlar?na hizmet etmek üzere ?irketlerin toplant? odalar?nda tasarlanm?? bir ya?am tarz? bu.

how to put new technologies to use for our best aspirations and not against them. Digital minimalism is one such strategy. It's toward its details that we now turn our attention.

Thoreau's obsession with calculation helps us move past the vague subjective sense that there are trade-offs inherent in digital clutter, and forces us instead to confront it more precisely. He asks us to treat the minutes of our life as a concrete and valuable substance—arguably the most valuable substance we possess—and to always reckon with how much of this life we trade

As the author Max Brooks quipped in a 2017 TV appearance, "We need to reevaluate [our current relationship with] online information sort of the way we reevaluated free love in the 80s.

common term I heard in these conversations about modern digital life was exhaustion. It's not that any one app or website was particularly bad when considered in isolation. As many people clarified, the issue was the overall impact of having so many different shiny baubles pulling so insistently at their attention and manipulating their mood.

the technologies underlying e-mail are transformative, but the current social conventions guiding how we apply this technology are underdeveloped.

A crucial shortcoming of many cryptocurrencies is excessive volatility.

The flip side of burning is minting, which increases the number of tokens in circulation.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

In ten years, I'm certain every COO worth their salt will have come from IT. Any COO who doesn't intimately understand the IT systems that actually run the business is just an empty suit, relying on someone else to do their job.

because everything is being recorded, we may not need to ask someone else for help in the future—we simply search for it.

Every company is a technology company, regardless of what business they think they're in. A bank is just an IT company with a banking license."†