Is Technology Shaping Your Life Or Vice Versa?

You're receiving this email because you are a DailyGood subscriber. Trouble Viewing? On a mobile? Just click here. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe.

July 1, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace Men have become the tools of their tools - Henry David Thoreau - Is Technology Shaping Your Life Or Vice Versa? "Sherry Turkle founded and directs the intriguingly titled MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She made waves with her book Alone Together; it was widely reviewed as a call to "unplug" our digital gadgets. But as I've read her and listened to her speak, I hear Sherry Turkle saying something more thought-provoking: that we can lead examined lives with our technology. That each of us, in our everyday interactions, can choose between letting technology shape us and shaping it towards human purposes, even towards honoring what we hold dear. Engaging Sherry Turkle on this is full of usable ideas -- from how to declare email bankruptcy to teaching our children the rewards of solitude -- a core human experience more elusive for their generation. And in technology as in life, it seems, discontent can be the beginning of wisdom." This engaging interview shares more. { read more } Be The Change Create "sacred spaces" for yourself and loved ones, where you commit to honoring uninterrupted time to connect, with your full attention and presence offered to each other. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Neuropsychology of "Don't Worry, Be Happy" The Northern Lights in Action How 17 Equations Changed the World High Schooler Devises Potential Cancer Cure 10 Points on the Science of Spreading Good Whiz Kids: 5 Amazing Young Inventors How Ignorance Fuels the Evolution of Knowledge A Brief History of Timekeeping DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 123,351 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More