ActiveTech @ActiveTechOrg

Let's make conscientious digital hygiene a mainstream demand for Active Tech products that retool passive addictions into active habits that work for us. ActiveTech.org Joined April 2023

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ActiveTech @ActiveTechOrg

10 months ago

While Google has stripped us all of our anonymity, our right to be forgotten, and our right to forget, it uses own massive resources, technology, and lawyers to cover it's own digital trail. Read the NY Times article entitled: "How Google Spent 15 Years Creating a Culture of…

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ActiveTech @ActiveTechOrg

10 months ago

We must recognize that passive digital technology use can be a destructive addiction Unplug solutions must integrate habit formation mechanics or they will fail to subvert addictions. Further, the social acceptability of digital addiction stops us from appreciating the…

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ActiveTech @ActiveTechOrg

10 months ago

We can all sense something’s wrong with our digital routine. At one time or another, we’ve all deployed digital countermeasures: we deleted email, news, and social apps, used online time limiters, or killed our internet connection. But eventually, without a comprehensive plan…

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ActiveTech @ActiveTechOrg

10 months ago

Make time to unplug every day Our best defense against the digital addictions that make us vulnerable to technology providers who profit from our personal data is to cultivate a personal discipline of unplugging. Unplugging is a necessary low-tech counterpart to high-tech data…

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ActiveTech @ActiveTechOrg

10 months ago

Passive technology use backseats our personal agenda. “Every technology is an expression of the human will [to] expand our power and control over our circumstances—over nature, over time and distance [and] over one another” (Carr (@roughtype), 2019, p. 45). While there are good…

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10 months ago

Outsourcing our memory weakens it. “We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence.” What The Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr, 2010,…