By Klint Finley and Chris Dancy
The podcast currently has 75 episodes available.
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Guest: Joanne McNeil - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne_McNeil and on twitter https://twitter.com/jomc
Joanne McNeil is a writer interested in the ways that technology is shaping art, politics, and society. She is currently working on a book. She writes about things like broken iPhones, virtual assistants in airports, the Chelsea Manning trial, and the future of novels. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Domus, Dissent, Frieze, The Baffler, Modern Painters, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, Saturated Space, Dirty Furniture, The Boston Globe, n+1/Occupy Gazette, and other web and print publications. She is currently collaborating with Eyebeam on OurNet, developing student workshops on networks.
CONTACTING: Joanne McNeil
Web: http://www.joannemcneil.com/about/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@jomc
Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/jomc
Technology and birthday harrasssments http://www.joannemcneil.com/the-internet-of-things-will-ruin-birthdays/
"Destroying your personal Christmas"
Companies are constantly looking ways to stay in contact with users
Personalized stalking
"Breaking the ice is now so easy"
Companies who bring you the latest holiday they are infatuated with
Unsubscribe war with your inbox
Celebrating holidays for way to long
Breaking News ramps up the anexity of events
Apple Amber Alerts and Emergency Broadcasting system
How many ways can you get alerts from your digital devices?
Car Play, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Your Smart phone alerts and your attention, the management of distracted living.
Notification of notifications turned off.
You can't be interested in your own life and want to manage it.
Stepford Style devices
Tech and pop culutre
Ex Machina, Black Mirror and Her, do they hurt people's ideas of new technology?
What is it that makes you uncomfortable about technology is a more appropriate question and dialog around technology.
Sara's Uncanney Valley Personalization http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/data-doppelgangers-and-the-uncanny-valley-of-personalization/372780/
Did Dave Eggers borrow from "The Boy Kings" to create "The Circle"? http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Kings-Journey-Social-Network/dp/1451668260
We don't have the language yet to talk about the technology, good fiction exgaterates what is possible.
Facebook Messenger Bots
"I'm bot curious"
What the difference between and AI and a bot?
Amazon Alexia has "Skills" https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/getting-started-guide
There is no choice in the services that the use in constristed interfaces
Where do you go to look for films to watch, Netflix, Apple, Amazon Prime? The time sensativity of our subscription services.
Beautiful global time tool http://worldchatclock.com/?a%5B0%5D%5Bname%5D=Singapore+ST&a%5B0%5D%5Btz%5D=Asia%2FSingapore&a%5B0%5D%5BisHome%5D=true&a%5B1%5D%5Bname%5D=London&a%5B1%5D%5Btz%5D=Europe%2FLondon&a%5B1%5D%5BisHome%5D=false&a%5B2%5D%5Bname%5D=New+York+City&a%5B2%5D%5Btz%5D=America%2FNew_York&a%5B2%5D%5BisHome%5D=false&isAP=1
Rohan mindfulness tool manifesto Blog https://medium.com/@rohan_21awake/10-things-i-hate-about-mindfulness-2b9836f6bc9a#.57dro46lc
Rohan's background: Dad, 35, Culturally Buddhist, Scotland for costs, Dog lover, Lifestyle designer, mindfulness based product creator.
Slow Movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement_(culture)
Dualism of slow and fast life?
Prioritizing wellbeing in an urban environment over "work life balance"
"As soon as you draw a line in the sand you start a war"
"The duality of the forest and the city is incredibly pervasive"
The contextualize application experience of Buddify http://buddhify.com
People are terrified to go home after they go to retreat, so how do you solve this challenge?
Applying design principles to the mindfulness world.
Lowering the barrier to entry vs defining a journey. The church of mindfulness objective to turn everyone into meditators vs solve their problems.Is the application "Headspace" application the future of mindfulness applications?
Meditation app's that are 50-100X investment
Subscription mindfulness (Calm.com, Buddify)
Old school Buddhist, "Where is the suffering"
"We are creating a generation of people who can only meditate with an app"
Buddhist applications, they should be designed to use and stop!
Buddify is a 5.00 product with no subscription so you could start using it and not have to live with it for the rest of your life.
Inapp purchase is hiding content, all the areas of your life should be available.
"My motivation is to create, creative, independent meditators"
The business model for Buddhism should be build for the journey.
Is there technical magic with Buddify, how does know what I'm doing it?
The jogger who couldn’t run because of technology <https://twitter.com/chrisdancy/status/680836354796851200 >
The culture of interdependency with applications.
The grokking of the practice "Mindfulness apps are teaching mindfulness but they maybe not building wisdom"
Five years of mindfulness apps, we solved access, now lets solve dependency.
Dukkha - is a Buddhist term commonly translated as "suffering", "anxiety", "stress", or "unsatisfactoriness - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukkha
The value of group meditation vs plugging in headphones and listening to an app.
Historically meditation was done in communities.
Sharing the practices deepens it
How do we br...
No guest, just Chris and Sara now. Catching up on the latest in tech news, including colonialism, Dark Net, and Kondo’ing our phones.
Flying in a Lucid Dream
Sara’s speaking at FutureME Singapore March 27
When People Write for Free Who Pays
Kanye West asked Mark Zuckerberg for $1 billion on Twitter
Kanye on Tidal
Kanye: I am Lord Voldemort conspiracy theory
Kim Kardashian’s selfie staff and LuMee light up phone case
Theorizing the Web
i’ve been on Facebook for 38% of my life #12yearsaslavepic.twitter.com/DmXwRRQMmd
— Sara M. Watson (@smwat) February 10, 2016
Facebook’s made up holiday, #FriendsDay
Sara’s Facebook portrait oil painting, by Matt Held
Jonathan Zittrain: Facebook Could Decide an Election Without Anyone Ever Finding Out
Facebook Brother’s register to vote screenshot
@TheLucidSage
Lucid Sage
Hosts: Chris, Sara, Klint
plans for 2016: gardening, bread making, lucid dreaming
— Sara M. Watson (@smwat) January 5, 2016
“Flying is the gateway drug for lucid dreaming.” - Chris
Episode 24 – Philosopher Evan Thompson
Episode 14 – Dream Yoga with Andrew Holecek
Episode 25 – Dream Researcher Kelly Bulkeley
Lucid Subreddit
Oculus Rift third person perspective and lucid dreaming
“Video games change the way you dream”
Lucid dreaming and video games
Memory Palaces
Occulus Subreddit on “presence”
False Awakening
dreams about cracking the glass on your iphone are the new dreams about losing your teeth
— Rachel Whitaker (@rwhitak) October 18, 2011
Sleep and Dream Database
Dreamboard app
Samata meditation
“On Zoloft, Inception Is Real”
“The Effects of Antidepressants on Sleep”
REM Rebound
“Gravitational Waves Exist”(!)
Galantamine
Hypnogogia
Sleep paralysis
History of Mindful Cyborgs http://mindfulcyborgs.com/showhistory
History of Hosts, Alex Williams, Klint Finely
Digital Mindfulness http://digitalmindfulness.net/
Mindful Cyborg Meetups, Resources & Lists http://mindfulcyborgs.com/meetups/
TMobile Binge ON http://www.wired.com/2016/01/t-mobile-confirms-it-slows-connections-to-video-sites/
Luminosity can't advertise
Consciousness Hacking Events
Corporation who celebrate beating other organizations, the ServiceNow "shark"
President Obama on Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee w/ Jerry Seinfeld (Can Obama use a fitbit in 2016 when he couldn't use his blackberry in 2008) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cOLF9k6FAw
The Frankenberry
CHris Dancy's heart rate on stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJm2XhUKmAg
Cord cutting is ruining our time management skills and more.
How much do you pay to stream everything?
Hearts of Space https://www.hos.com/
How much time does it take you to change credit cards and to manage all your subscription services?
Autonomous marxian theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomism
Being on Facebook is unpaid labor for Facebook
Internet Cruft
Rescue Time (how much time are you spending on your computer and how?) https://www.rescuetime.com/
94 hours on Redditt
Paying more attention to sex than Apple News
You're quantified, you just don't get to see it
What do people want from Apple Watch 2 https://twitter.com/chrisdancy/status/682028054432976896?lang=en
How much more time people are spending on Amazon https://twitter.com/chrisdancy/status/681655203951685633?lang=en
Does Chris Dancy still quantify stuff in 2016?
Klint wants a wearable? Yup a Garmin Vivofit
Apple watch and meditation
Apple Music knows I'm gay and have a puppy https://twitter.com/search?q=apple%20music%20from%3Achrisdancy&src=typd&lang=en
Darwin Melnyk, AgTech making virtual acres https://twitter.com/chrisdancy/status/679774610292883457?lang=en
New Year resolutions: Klint - Create new ficiton and new ambient music, Audio programing lanuage "Chuck" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChucK
New Year resolutions: Chris - Theorizing the Web, Compass App and my meditation practice. The Nothing goal.
Battered, br...
Eleanor Saitta
MC episode with Eleanor: Data Driven Introspection and Surveillance Culture
Chris’s Medium post Designing Contemplative Technology
Facebook Compassion
Amber Case
Tristan Harris
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Nathan Jurgenson
Why Doesn’t America Read Anymore? NPR
neocities
Starbucks app
Episode 69 - Deb Chachra joins and shares her work as a professor of material science (at a brand new school!), as a science writer with a (great) newsletter, and more.
Episode 68 - Guest Rose Eveleth is a journalist and creator of the new (and awesome) podcast Meanwhile in the Future.
The podcast currently has 75 episodes available.