- The Switch to Outdoor LED Lighting Has Completely Backfired. [Gizmodo]
- Too right it’s Black Friday: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet. [Monbiot]
- Automated checkouts ‘miserable’ for elderly shoppers. [BBC]
- Do Civilizations Collapse? [Aeon]
- ‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia. [Guardian]
No Tech Reader #14
No Tech Reader #12
- The moral and ethical weight of voluntary simplicity. [Simplicity Institute]
- Just enough is plenty: Thoreau’s Alternative Economics. [Simplicity Institute]
- Like start-ups, most intentional communities fail — why? [Aeon]
- A sacred light in the darkness: winter solstice illuminations at Spanish missions. [Conversation]
- Aid in reverse: how poor countries develop rich countries. [The Guardian]
Video:
- The birth of a wooden house. Via Fernando Spalding.
- Primitive Technology: Termite Clay Kiln & Pottery.
- Happy People, A Year in Taiga. Via Jon Batzel.
- Japanese Tiny House on Wheels.Via Ed Carey.
- Thousand-year-old windmills still in use. Via Rick Otten.
No Tech Reader #11
- God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism. [The Guardian]
- Should you feel sad about the demise of the written letter? [Aeon]
- A year without a byte [code.flickr.com]
- When power is low, I often hack in the evenings by lantern light. [joey hess]
- Olimex Open Source Laptop. [hackaday]
- Why we can’t look away from our screens. [NYT]
- Why I am not going to buy a cellphone. [Aeon]
- Forget smartphones — the Nokia 3310 is still the mobile of the future. [The Guardian]
- Pause! We can go back. [New York Review of Books]
- And their eyes glazed over. [Aeon]
- The analog spaces in digital companies. [New Yorker]
Links via Roel Roscam Abbing, Aaron Vansintjan & Mark van den Borre.
No Tech Reader #10
- Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps [NYT]
- The Analog Spaces in Digital Companies [The New Yorker] [Via]
- Smartphone Users Trust Strangers Less [Journalist’s Resource]
No Tech Reader #9
- Hail the maintainers. [Aeon]
- The end of upgradable Apple computers. [Motherboard]
- Eye contact is good for you. [Guardian]
- Weapons AI increasingly replacing, not augmenting, human decision making. [Defense One]
- The demoralized mind. [New Internationalist]
- The binge breaker. [Atlantic]
- Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster. [Guardian]
Last three links via Hunther/Gatherer.