Office Garden
Technology domesticates us
During human evolution, work and leisure were not separate concepts. With the rise of modernity, factory and office work has domesticated us to follow clock time and artificial light. Yet how “natural” is it to sit in front of a computer screen eight hours a day? We need technology that resonates with our senses, rather than numbing them, that empowers the human condition, rather than undermining it. How can we create an office garden that teems with life and possibility?
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The Buttons
Nitipak Samson creates conceptual buttons that move beyond the paradigm of on/off to integrate social and environmental functions.
Why Handwriting Must Die
Associate professor Anne Trubek argues that handwriting will soon be history because writing words by hand is a technology that's ...
Animals Love Technology
While evidence indicates that humans have been domesticated by technology we’re not the only primates captivated by modernity. A Japanese ...
Experimental Office: No Chairs, No Desks
How natural is it to work from nine to five sitting on a chair behind a desk staring at a ...