thoughts on readings: wk1 wk2

Well, my notes are pretty slim. I enjoy our class discussions but when I
open the readings, I think---I hate this stuff! I don't get it --and have nothing to say
about it. That's confusing to me...brings up that momentary panic--what
am i doing here?!!--not the class-- ITP! Panic subsides...

But I think I have remained pretty naive about the direction of technology. --And
about what people are interested in.

To me, the work is thinly disguised noise-- and sometimes fancy commercials, as in ____. "Calm technology" yet still delivers an invitation to distractibility.

So far, I am only able imagine designing intimate devices solely to inspire a question in the
user's mind--one that they will hopefully answer for themselves.

Is it necessary to think larger? Get more attention?

Our class discussions are really useful to me: in general, most seem to have thought further about this sort of design than I have, so interacting in that conversation is at least a start!