valley of commons day 4
valley of the commons – day 4 – amber case
via tweet [https://x.com/VotC2026/status/2092911437349863770?s=20]:
we are liive with the keynote by @caseorganic on calm tech!
notes/quotes from 80 min video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_TlFG_DmEU]:
VotC | Amber Case – Calm Technology – intro to calm tech and standards body7 min – tech not about chiros time (vs chronos time).. when you forget about time and are in the moment.. this is the time i thought tech would enable us
to me.. only if we use tech as it could be
11 min – mark weiser: ‘what happens when tech is cheap enough to be everywhere?’
berners-lee everyone law.. none of us are free
what world needs most – he energy of 8b alive people
humanity needs a leap.. to get back/to simultaneous spontaneity .. simultaneous fittingness.. everyone in sync.. the dance
13 min – how tech works with or against attention is the change
rather.. how it works unconditionally to detox us.. otherwise.. even our seemingly ‘pure’ attention is only about whalespeak et al
paper – the coming age of calm tech (1996) by mark weiser and john seely brown: ‘the important waves of tech change are those that fundamentally alter the place of tech in our lives.. what matters is not tech itself, but tis relationship to us
relationship ness we need most/1st: legit us dance-ing with legit others
so what we need most from tech is the unconditional (the thing tech could do that we can’t seem to ie: tech w/o judgment via nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to detox us all in sync via non hierarchical listening
mark weiser.. calm tech ness.. john seely brown.. et al
17 min – on needing faster tech
need most.. the exponential part of nonjudgmental expo labeling
35 min – it’s about how info is communicated
rather.. 1\ about legit info/data.. everything to date has been non legit.. ie: whalespeak.. need a means to get to legit data first.. ie: tech as it could be
41 min – tech should still work when it fails
44 min – what kinds of orgs have made changes in the past
none have made legit change.. ie: mufleh humanity law et al
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findings from on the ground ness deep dive on why we need tech w/o judgment
ie: the dance won’t dance unless/until it’s 1\ all of us 2\ legit free
that’s what legit ‘calm’ tech could do
and nothing to date (ever since that day) has gotten to that root of problem
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. perpetuating survival triage.. for (blank)’s sake..
no legit change.. no legit calm
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be you. 