Reflexive technologies
Interesting reflections on the interaction between our bodies and our technologies.
a) reminds me of The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins, in which the tools, houses, social relations of humans are viewed as extensions and manifestations of the genotype (much as the beaver's dam, and subsequent pond, are expressions of its genotype)
b) there was an article 8 years ago on how every advance in technology didn’t really change the amount of time we spent on something. i.e., people still spend, say, 8 hours writing a 10-page term paper, they just make more correctable typos and paragraph reorderings.
c) ...like the 'study' that showed urban-dwellers have commuted on average 30 minutes to and from work since 500 B.C.
