Letting go of Technology: Christina Crook at TEDx TheAnnexWomen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Christina Crook discusses "Letting go of Technology: Pursuing a People Focused Future".
Christina Crook, off-line exploring, spent 31 days typewriting letters to a friend rather than turning to the internet for distraction, entertainment and affirmation. Her Letters from a Luddite project garnered national media attention and her book Digital Detox: Rethinking Our Lives Online, is forthcoming from New Society Publishers (Fall 2014.) Crook's poetry, essays and interviews on art, culture, technology and religion have appeared in UPPERCASE, CBC.ca, Vancouver Magazine, Today's Parent and the Literary Review of Canada.
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I believe that the our day's challenge is to be free from distraction. The degree of one's digital distraction will directly correlate to one's ability to discover themselves and grow spiritually.
They go into town and plug them at a local store. I live in a third world country in central america and it is common practice, no different than using s free charging station at an airport anywhere in the world. WAKE UP
+Tolo Perry wouldnt you call that "access" to electricity
5:20 - "More Africans have access to mobile phones than electricity or water."
Then how, pray tell, do they RECHARGE them?
USB solar chargers.... DUHH....... 20$ at Wall-mart.
***** What do they have for Wal-Marts in Africa?
In Africa, they have Massmarts (51% owned by Wallmart), but the really poor people have nothing.
Great message, but nothing worse than speech that sounds like robotic recording.