While I love the things that digital technologies enable me to do, I can't help but feel like I've spent too much time focusing on how I can digitize my life rather than looking for ways that technology can enhance the physical reality that I exist in. 9/9

Even if we can capture and represent more physical attributes in our digital systems, we can't fully replicate the characteristics of those physical interactions.

Maybe that's fundamentally the wrong approach? 8/9

On the surface we could address (some) of these issues by gathering and encoding more data, but that comes with its own problems. Unfortunately the past few decades have shown how every bit of data we gather will be collected, aggregated, extrapolated, processed, and exploited. 7/9

When I read an ebook I have no sense of where I am or where a passage I'm remembering might be. Even if I do remember where the passage I want was on a given page, I can't flip to page 213 because screen size, font size, and other settings break that concept. 6/9

I'm frustrated by how much information our digital experiences fail to convey. They are better in a variety of ways, but often they only convey the specific information that the developer intended. 5/9

underlining or circling or decorating text without switching tools or editing mode, the hook of the corner of a worn paperback, and the stains paper accrues over a lifetime of use. 4/9

recalling that a particular passage is about three-fifths of the way through a book and in the top left corner of the page, sensing how well used a page is as it slides between your fingers, using the back of a single sided printout to write notes, 3/9

dogearing pages, jumping between multiple open books gathered on a table in front of you, using color coded sticky tabs to tag different concepts and seeing the distribution of those tabs across a document, how the angle of a tab or crease in it can change its meaning, 2/9

Remember: guns aren't a problem, the TOS violators are

Big love for all a y'all

Ohh, those stats!

Y'all are great so I'm happy to see these posts :D