So far we’ve focused on a lot of information on how technology has benefited us as well as how it can be used to hurt us. I thought we would take this time to explore the lack of technology. We spend a lot of time on it, but are we really mindful of how we use it and how it interrupts our time. Our time and attention has become a commodity on social media apps such as Facebook and Twitter and time is the only thing you cannot buy.
Tristan Harris talks about this quite a bit in this Ted Talk.https://youtu.be/jT5rRh9AZf4 (Links to an external site.)
He also discusses this quite a bit in the Social Dilemma movie on Netflix. So if anybody hasn’t watched this, I highly encourage you to watch it.
For this assignment for that hour or any hour you have this week. Turn off technology. Turn off your phone, your laptop, whatever keeps you connected for one hour, 60 minutes. And do something else, bake something, or take a walk, go for a drive somewhere, do some art, have a conversation with someone, read a book/magazine, something without using the internet/phone, laptop or electronic device. And then post what you did, feel free to include pictures (this you can turn your phone on for to take a picture, but then turn it off).
After your one hour free from tech, do you agree with Tristan?
Were you able to make it for an hour?
Do you think we focus on too much of our time using technology? What are the benefits, what are the consequences?
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