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Genevieve Bell
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[|Making Technology Human, Biosensor Smartphones]

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[] http://www.intel.com/education/projects/news/vol_04/highered2.htm http://anitaborg.org/about/who-we-are/dr-genevieve-bell http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=78199344 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/why-people-really-love-technology-an-interview-with-genevieve-bell/265596

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Quotes
Any technology that threatens to do three things always invokes a moral anxiety. If it threatens to rearrange our relationships to time, our relationships to space and our relationships to other people. And as soon as a technology has that potential we immediately imagine nothing good will come of it. And it is usually followed by phrases like 'it will be the end of our society', 'it will be the death of our culture', 'have you seen what the young people are doing'. It's never good. - Genevieve Bell, [|Many Internets, many lives] ( [|James Tizard lecture] )

What would it be to have technology that celebrated presence, not absence, that grounded you in being in that place, not being somewhere else? - Genevieve Bell, []

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Think and Drink

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Gen Bell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTsQLUp9mZE http://oregonhumanities.org/programs/programs/think-drink-with-genevieve-bell/1197/

media type="custom" key="27845665" average footprint of an American home. are they neutral? no are they active agents ... more complicated discussion this moment in time: behaving as if this is new as if we've never had to go through questions of ownership or privacy or risk ... Interested in the way we dilegent about the histories of things because it's easy to erase them. The arc of human history is a dance ... and we are changed by it. We went from being storytellers to readers. Less than a decade of high-enough speed internet to ...20% US households still not connected. It's not a lived experience for everyone and for those who have lived it, it's new. Australia 1956, in the 70s just gone color and grandparents and parents were still arguing. What is it bad to eat in front of it? Was the preponderance of Australian TV - shoutout to A-Team, Love Boat and Wonder Woman .... We arguing about the mechanics, social relationships ... We're on a particular arc and it's unclear if it's going to go like this or this Go all in and then go back to doing the other thing. How digital will we be? European car company - shutdown email friday afternoon and turns it back on until monday Imagine a world where email is not 24/7 You can't know a place until you are knee-deep in it. Being connected good ... creates other issues Harder was keeping people connected most people don't use technology frequently you need a hard password put all the work on the front end, not the bad what does it mean being not connected sarah google workarounds high touch socialability, relationships that matter libraries, community centers just because you have a connection doesn't mean that everyone will use it navigate ideas about tech power, tk and need chuck barnes, technology coach - orient through fear and delight, new technologies accompanied by panic anxiety - change relations to time, to space, to each other. When a technology does all 3, it has radical transformation. ATM example panoptican Not everyone is constantly connected.

[|4:35]  We mistake transcribing focus groups for insight. We mistake writing down what people say for making of meaning. And the reality what most of us know is that what you say and what you meant by that are two frequently two different things and what you didn't say may be more important than what you said. You are transcribing utterances and then doing a content analysis on the words, you maybe missing the most important things because they are unsayable or unsaid. [|10:00]  Technology is not neutral ... it does not have agency [|15:30]  We changed from being storytellers to readers [|19:17]  Internet no longer twinned with democracy [|20:00]  (Sound cuts out until [|21:35] ) [|34:35]  What if we imagined for a moment we were to build technology that embodied our best angels not our worst fears. What if we build technology that imagined we are better than we are ... Infinite patience and infinite grace [|53:43]  We have a lawyer, senior judge who admitted he didn't read his own email. He had people print it out and bring it to him ... Printing out Twitter meme ... <span style="color: #167ac6; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[|53:52] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif;"> He had no shame <span style="color: #167ac6; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[|55:20] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif;"> Desire to make it a simple story. The reality is. It's already been incredibly complicated and we can resist simplifying, resist making it easy. Ask the hard questions and allow some of the answers will be ambiguous which is a pain I know if you're a policy-maker. Not tidy-ing up, when you open up those stories hear other voices and other experiences which become other posibilities and prospects. And if you don't have that, you have a moribund conversation