These roots are significant because our patterns of use, our ways of embracing or rejecting technology are grounded in this history. knew from that experience that whenever we talked about technology (social media) we needed to also talk about practice and the human beings doing the practicing. Cover of the Digital Habitats book. MORE >>

Jim Kunstler spoke to a packed audience at Mount Allison University last night, covering much of the material in his book The Long Emergency with updated data. You can watch his 2004 TED Talk on The Tragedy of Suburbia. It’s feasible, much-needed, requires no new technology and will employ many people. MORE >>

His claims that companies were overspending on IT, because the technology was becoming more commoditized and accessible to everyone “ignited an industry firestorm.”  . has entered the post-technology era.  It is not that technology itself no longer matters, he explained.  fits neatly into his concept of a post-technology era. MORE >>

Once upon a time, new technologies were first deployed in large institutions - enterprises, universities and research labs, the military and civilian government agencies, - from which they eventually  trickled down to the rest of the economy as their prices and complexity dropped.  Social networking applications are not new to business.  MORE >>

Research And The Long Tail 2 “In 1988, a British mountain climber named Joe Simpson wrote a book called  Touching the Void , a harrowing account of near death in the Peruvian Andes. Jon Krakauer wrote Into Thin Air , another book about a mountain-climbing tragedy, which became a publishing sensation. But the technology. MORE >>