http://vincemichael.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/managing-change-or-we-are-technology/ Vince Michael on history, preservation, planning and more Tue, 28 May 2013 19:40:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://vincemichael.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/managing-change-or-we-are-technology/#comment-1843 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:37:10 +0000 http://vincemichael.wordpress.com/?p=3381#comment-1843 [...] So my daughter and I sing along to “Thrift Shop” (I’ll wear your granddad’s clothes, I’ll look incredible) as I drive, guided by the tomtom in my iPhone, past mountains and horses and Teslas and Philz Coffees, not wondering whether what we experience is what was promised thirty years ago, or what it will be like in 30 years, or the meaning of it all or meaning at all, just difference and how technology is what we are and where we are as much as it is an extension of us because like placemaking it is a reciprocal relationship, it is toolmaking but it is making us at the same time. Which I wrote about two year ago here. [...]

]]> http://vincemichael.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/managing-change-or-we-are-technology/#comment-582 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:27:29 +0000 http://vincemichael.wordpress.com/?p=3381#comment-582 [...] gave us cultural products but more than that he gave us a new economy of culture. As I said in this blog recently, the tricky reality of technology is not THINGS, but [...]

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