#nprpodcast

[thomaswilmer]

Working on a cool podcast about the National Roller Skate Museum in #lincolnnebraska #rollerskating #nprpodcast (at Lincoln, Nebraska) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbTMW2cvkhj/?utm_medium=tumblr

[rachelceleste]

The internet archives and warps the past. With no distinction left between the past the present and the future, and the here or there, we are left with this moment, everywhere. This moment that I'll call the 'digital now'. This digital now is not the present because its always a few seconds ahead. With Twitter streams that are already trending and news from other time zones, this now bears very little physical or psychological reference to our own state. It's focus instead is to distract us at every turn in the road. Are you reading an interview by an author? Why not by his book? Tweet it, share it, like it, find other books exactly like his, find other people reading those books. Not just is the digital now far from the present but is in direct competition with it, and there in lies it's greatest convenience and horror. At all times I can operate at a different rhythm and pace from you, while I sustain the illusion that I am tapped into you, in real time. Just how can we prioritize in the landscape of the digital now?  Things happen in the time they take; time can't be fought. And because it will pass and it will move, we owe the present moment our full attention. We can choose to take time back.

Abha Dewaser, TED Radio Hour, “ScreenTime - Part II”, NPR

I took to time to transcribe this after listening to this TED Talk Radio Hour series because it was so hauntingly oriented to how we interact with the screens in our lives. I highly recommend listening to this two part series on how screens are influencing and changing us now and as technology continues to advance. 

Memory and social interaction light my fire and I found this so fascinating & worth mulling over.

{Here’s: Part I | Part II }