Technology on the Path to Reality: Snapshots from the Pre-Post-Digital Age
Misadventures with a cell phone help the author dial into more enduring, meaningful adventures and relationships not dependent on an electronic-communications hamster wheel.
Back to Life: Returning from the Virtual to the Real
To shake our addiction to modern technology, we must understand its true costs. Stillwaters Sanctuary works to create a culture of greater connection, where it is easier to live without industrial society.
Technology: Our External Thumb
Instead of asking whether technology is a “friend or foe,” perhaps we should be asking how to better help friends and reduce foes through the use of technology.
“Appropriate” Technology and Community on the Path to Resiliency
At Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, efforts to foster a renaissance in land-based living go hand in hand with judicious use of modern design and communication technologies.
Technology, Nature, and Community
How does modern technology affect our ecological and social literacy? Are computers and their kin suppressing or enhancing the awareness, skills, and qualities essential to our nature as humans?
Kawsmos: The Unintentional Community
After 11 years of gathering, a group of Kaw Valley’s cosmic explorers realizes that community has happened to them.