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November 2011
And so it ends...
By Jon Dron in the group Soft things, hard things and invisible elephants November 25, 2011 - 10:05pm Comments (8)Well, actually, I'm very happy to continue the conversation and develop this group space if anyone is interested. However, we are reaching the end of my week at the Change11 MOOC so this is probably the last post in this space for a while, back to...Getting to the Goldilocks spot on the soft-hard continuum
By Jon Dron in the group Soft things, hard things and invisible elephants November 24, 2011 - 4:14pmThere are very few technologies that are wholly hard or wholly soft, at least when viewed as an assembly. It is the proportion of soft/hard parts that make a particular assembly softer or harder. That's how come replacement can make things harder...So, we had this meeting and talked about soft and hard things...
By Jon Dron in the group Soft things, hard things and invisible elephants November 23, 2011 - 1:05pm Comments (3)I finished the first synchronous sesssion for my bit of the #change MOOC a little while ago. Self referentially, I was a victim of a hard technology of my own devising, a set of slides that formed the background to my talk that, as I talked through...More woody stuff - how a focus on a tool can blind us to the technology it is a part of
By Jon Dron in the group Soft things, hard things and invisible elephants November 22, 2011 - 11:38amThe blog post for day 2 of my week at the Change11 MOOC... Yesterday I made a quick and dirty four-minute video in which I explore the ways that a stick can become a technology because of how it can be combined with soft processes and used...Structure, behaviour and wood
By Jon Dron in the group Soft things, hard things and invisible elephants November 21, 2011 - 10:35am Comments (2)Churchill said 'we shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape our lives', a sentiment echoed by McLuhan whose take on it was 'we shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us'. That's the starting point for the theme for my bit of...
Soft things, hard things and invisible elephants
Jon Dron's contribution to #change11.
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