What's new? What's different?

This week, our challenge is perhaps that the problems we face and the perceived complexity of any proposed solution is not new. And it isn't different.

We are the latest in a long line of societies who have stood on a temporal precipice. Asking:

What is technology good for? Who is it good for?

People's relations with computers, like all relationships, the net result is the sum (or perhaps greater than the sum) of the actions we take.

• Let's take personal computers literally: Technology is a tool that we (humans) use. Neither good nor bad. But

We propose:

• Re-socialise/re-humanise or perhaps simply humanise technology but running an experiment
• Deploy the concepts and experiments in basecamp
  • Inviting basecampers to adopt under a hashtag:
    • Reset
    • takeback
    • embrace
    • belong
    • humanme
• Some of our potential experiments
  • Meet me Mondays
  • In Touch Tuesdays
  • Frenemy Fridays
  • Offtober (unplug from social media for a month)
  • FaceTime: Analog consumerism (i.e. choose to purchase in person instead of online; choose to use the cashiers

Process

• And, like reasonable social scientists, these hashtags will allow us to witness, to listen, to collect information:
• We want you to try, to reflect, and share short "after action" reports about how this change (in habits or mindset) has altered your relationship with technology.

We are going to double down on a simple concept: we want to embracing humanity to unleash technology. And we want embrace this together, with every one of you.