Sven Birkerts:

1
Sven Birkerts Electronic Hive Refuse it

• Pessimist!
• We trade for ease, it is our nature
• In the past, we had time to accept the graft,
  the new organ (pg 80). We assume we must need
  new technologies.
• Why are we not debating the philosophical
  ramifications of the new technology?

2
Sven (cont. 1)

• We should be asking
• Are we changing?
• Are the changes for the best?
• Connectedness and individualism are warring
  terms (incompatible)
• We have lost the concept of duration, only
  interested in the now
• We have learned to multi-task at the cost of
  appreciating duration.

3
Sven (cont. 2)

• We, as a culture, are becoming shallow.
• Sacrificing wisdom for faith in the web.
• We have a need to be embraced, known and valued
  not abstractly, but in presence. Tools will
  never achieve this.
• Webs power is to divide us.