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4/1/2017

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OK I know it's a bit early in the year to get serious, after all it's not even the Twelfth Day of Christmas yet. (It's a bit early for Easter too but there were Hot Cross Buns on sale in the supermarket today! Truly!)

Seth Godin's recent post chimes so well with my reading lately that I just have to share it with you. I have been re-reading Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death (1986) and watching a YouTube video of the same man at the beginning of the internet age in Six Questions On Technology. It is 45 minutes long and I found it worth listening to, but if you want the short version (haha Seth) go to 42 minutes

I realise that one of his questions - and you know I like a good question - has stayed with me and influenced me quite a bit in my search for a simpler life. It is:

                     What is the problem to which this technolgy is the solution?

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Poppy, are you listening to me?
8 Comments
PennyL
5/1/2017 01:24:09 am

Gosh, food for thought,Freda. I am going to ponder this question...

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Freda
5/1/2017 02:44:50 pm

Questions, questions.....

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Cristiana
5/1/2017 08:57:39 am

A lot to ponder and several questions ring home to me. I have no answers, but I will say one thing: I am guilty of using the "make it easy to swallow, reinforce existing beliefs, keep it short, make it sort of fun, .. "thecnique, on-line and off-line too.

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Freda
5/1/2017 02:46:18 pm

Me too Crisitiana - I think maybe because of the sheer volume of information coming at us?

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Lotta link
5/1/2017 10:57:17 am

I love that question! Brain a bit foggy after a long drive home yesterday but I'm looking forward to reading Seth's post etc when my head's clearer - it looks like just my kind of thing. In the meantime I may have to spend my evening in much the same way as Poppy!

Have been enjoying catching up with your posts Freda - I love your word for the year and all its possibilities - so much freedom in that...

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Freda
5/1/2017 02:47:35 pm

Hope you got a good sleep Lotta! Freedom is a great word too..

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Mary
5/1/2017 02:51:56 pm

A question to ponder let roll around in my head for a while. And I do worry about the state of journalism (real journalism, the kind that uses sources and actually facts). Must say that I look to a variety of European news sources for more in-depth articles on a variety of subjects because it seems US news sources are becoming less dense--and yet more stupid (couldn't resist). My husband, who still watches TV news (I won't), fumed just this morning about the fact that a local news station now relies more on social media tweets than actually covering the news with reporters who have gathered facts (no money for that). Said it is one minute of headlines and then 15 minutes of various tweets being read out loud. So utterly vapid. Keep in mind this local station isn't in the boonies, it is in Washington, DC. I could go on, but I won't. I will, however, continue to ponder the question.

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Freda
5/1/2017 03:26:39 pm

Maybe we all need to complain more! And louder!

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