the analog renaissance manifesto
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A plea to rely les on technology.TRANSCRIPT
page 1. Multitasking Mayhem
page 1I1. Overdosing on Tablets
page v. Corrupt Memories
page VI1. 140 Characters or Less
page IX. Vimeo Killed the Video Star
page XI. Lo-Fi Living.
page XIII. Solitude.
This is the Analog Renaissance Manifesto, the following points are not
just angry rants about how evil we think technology. We are anything but
anti technology, it serves a purpose and does it well.
Just think of this as a plea to rely less on it, and appreciate the now
all to redundant generations of technology that have come before this.
Appreciate print media, video tapes, 8 tracks, photocopiers, fax machines,
polaroid photos, typewritters and all that other nostalgic stuff!
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Our ever growing reliance and immersion in technology has
seen us `multitasking ̀more than ever. But as we `multitask ̀more and
more I feel out consentration and attentionspan to a subject grows
shorter and shorter. We f ind ourselves looking at multiple screens at a
time, checking e-mails on the computer, watching our favourite shows on
television and texting our friends and co workers in tandem. We live to
be up to date with everything happening in the world at any given second
in the day. We can`t just constentrate on reading that 400 word article
on our bookmarked website, we also have to check the football scores
on another website whilest also checking the weather for tomorrow in
another tab on our browser. Thats if we can squeeze the time in between
liking someones status on facebook and re tweeting that same person
at the same time aswell. Think about it, how often have you put what you
were doing on hold to watch a video on youtube, or reply to a friends
message almost as soon as you`ve recived it?
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Traditional books, in my opinion as a booklover, will always be
around. Many people feel it is completely taboo to even think about
throwing out a book, for whatever reason. As more and more people
begin to go the way of the e-book and e-readers, I have begun to realize
how much better it feels to read an actual book. There is just something
classic and traditional about having a physical book to hold while you
are reading. It is sad to think that one day the youth could not even know
what a traditional book looks like. Books could be a foreign concept
to them; something they see when the go to history museums. Books in
themselves are a form of technology that should not go to the wayside.
The library sciences are waning in popularity and usefulness as more
and more works are being digitized. Librarians are becoming obsolete,
with their traditional f ield of expertise no longer being needed. I
have an e-reader myself but have realized that reading on it is not the
same as holding a book in my hands. Reading a paperback book becomes
an experience: the way the book smells, how the pages feel. There are
memories associated and embedded into the pages of well worn books
that just are not there with e-books, and e-books will never have that
physical and emotional experience associated with them.
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CORRUPTED/MEMORIES/.......................DATA LOST/
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The over reliance we have placed in digital stroage will only lead to
lost memorys further down the line. Storing our photos albums, our
music collection, our books, a in cyber space, on cloud severs, hard
drives and memory sticks is only asking to face corruption and loss of
data as it weathers the test of time. With no back ups our f iles risk being
lost forever.
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There's nothing more frustrating to me than a Twitterer who does not have a
website containing personal writings, musings or information lis...
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...ted in their prof ile. I want to know more about a person than they could
ever tell me in 140 characters, but sadly, I think I am the except...
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I grew up on surf ing and back in the day bodyboarding vids on VHS
were pumping. The constant smashing of the rewind button meant a
Fuzzy White Line of Doom pluaged my exsistance. Oter kids my age were
getting involved in Rage every saturday morning. My musical taste was
restricted to whatever Strohey or Ian Stewart decided I should be digging.
The only thing about the vids was the wait. I'd wait months and watch
the same 3 minuets of footage every afternoon for the next 6 months. I
wanted instant Gratif ication. I wanted to be somthered by new vids on a
weekly basis. Well be careful what you wish for because Vimeo has killed
boogie vids, instant gratif ication is at your f inger tips. But plain and
simple it aint as good. Without anticipation there is no fuf ilment!!
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From a design point of view I fell we all to readily jump to the
computer when we start to work on projects we undertake. I wish we
could all take a step back an explore alternative ways to produce work,
sometimes the results look much nicer and are something we can become
alot more emotinaly invested in!
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We should be encouraged to learn the benef its of being alone;
otherwise, “we risk losing the capacity for the kind of solitude that
energizes and restores
I think of solitude as such an incredibly rewarding experience.
Learning to be alone allows us to know ourselves better, have healthier
relationships, gain conf idence, and experience things for ourselves.
In our constant attachment to technology, we lose the capacity to
experience this kind of solitude. Even when we are alone in our homes
many of us sit with our phones in our pockets, our tablets by our sides
or out laptops infront of us, constantly connected. Have you noticed
how people can't live without their mobile phones? If they're not talking
then they're checking for a message that wasn't there two minutes ago. We
often f ind ourselves f idling with our phones whilst we wait for trains,
wait for friends, wait for coffes, walk form point A to point B, can't we
be out of touch for even a few minutes? Even when we our not calling
or texting our friends or exchanging messages on facebook we still
have the means to do so with us at all times as some kind of comforting
cushion. Learning to be comfortable with out access to these means of
instant communication will serve us better in the long run.
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