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	<description>part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Comments on: Visualising the final assignment</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/12/19/visualising-the-final-assignment/#comment-523</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Fantastic idea Ania!
Please do use anyting of mine that you find useful.  
Merry Xmas!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Week 10: Full circle.</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/11/28/week-10-full-circle/#comment-116</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Great idea to do a mind map Carol.  Edupunk looks awesome, I will definitely be digging deeper there, thanks.  

I'd agree with you that the connections become more apparent over time.  I've notice in my own lifestream that even avenues which seemed to be dead ends at first, became paths to new ideas later on.  It's interesting to think what this everlasting memory and constant recording might mean for education and especially for research.

Great choice of topic too!  Best of luck with it!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Eco bugs as post human pedagogy</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/geraldinej/2011/11/28/eco-bugs-as-post-human-pedagogy/#comment-66</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi Geraldine,
A very interesting choice.  I love the idea of a symbiotic relationship between bugs and players (even if only virtual).  If the bugs can teach kids to see these types of relationship more easily, then the long term outcome can only be positive.  
Cheers]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Posthuman Pedagogy</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/11/24/augmented-reality/#comment-207</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Thanks for the tip about Autopoiesis, I hadn't heard of it before.  Fascinating stuff, I look forward to digging deeper.  Your question about an AR scenario made me pause...  I'd been thinking of AR for use in teaching very traditional topics and in very practical terms, much like Streetmusuem:Londinium or Ania's BMW example; but really it can be so much more than that.  I'm reminded of the, by now famous, Virtual Hallucinations example in second life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s33Y5nI5Wbc

Imagine how much more effective this would be if experienced through AR?  The incredible potential of AR is that it brings the unreal into the real world, rather than with VR where we move from the real world into the unreal.  The benefit here of course is that we experience something we can relate far more easily to.]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Posthuman Pedagogy</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/11/24/augmented-reality/#comment-206</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi Grace,
I took a look online for The Intergalactic Omniglot, and you are right! It's practically a prototype for computer assisted learning.  Very prescient!  Cheers.]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Posthuman Pedagogy</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/11/24/augmented-reality/#comment-205</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Thanks for the link Ania,
That's a perfect example!  Imagine when this becomes mainstream and we can fix a leaky pipe using the same method!  Suddenly everyone is an expert in everything.]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Posthuman Pedagogy - Think Like a Robot</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/austint/2011/11/21/posthuman-pedagogy-think-like-a-robot/#comment-267</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Jeremy makes a good point about how objective our perspective can be, but I'd agree with Austin that we can try to imagine different embodiments.  In fact I'd argue that as technology changes us, we are continually experiencing a modified state of consciousness and a new and plastic embodiment.  Carol and I were discussing something similar last week and came to the conclusion that in many ways, the prefix "post" could be considered redundant given the fact that humanity is continually undergoing some type of change. Not sure that I could ever imagine myself as Skynet though Austin!  To be completely disconnected from physical reality would be beyond uncanny and downright strange.  A thought provoking piece, thanks!!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Posthuman Pedagogy</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/11/24/augmented-reality/#comment-156</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Thanks Austin,
Yes AR is really maturing as a usable consumer technology now!  And I definitely agree that the layer of meta data can only grow and become more important over time.  We are really on the verge of something amazing happening in this space... it's going to be exciting to watch the developments.]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: </title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/week-by-week/block-3-cyborg-learners/week-10/all-the-posthuman-pedagogies-in-one-place/#comment-881</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi folks,
I've chosen Augmented Reality Learning Environments as my example of a Posthuman Pedagogy:

http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/11/24/augmented-reality/]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: On the differences between the cyborg and the posthuman</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/11/13/on-the-differences-between-the-cyborg-and-the-posthuman/#comment-150</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Fuller seems like an interesting character.  I haven't been able to get a hold of the text but I have found some rather stylish promotional videos on youtube.  In the past I would have agreed with him, especially after reading Bart Kosko's Fuzzy Future many years ago where he describes the surgical process of a gradual, neuron by neuron (hence fuzzy) transfer of consciousness into silicon.  Nowadays however I think I would lean more towards Hayles view that attempting to move consciousness must necessarily modify it in some way, ie "even assuming such a separation was possible, how could anyone think 
that consciousness in an entirely different medium would remain unchanged, as if it had no connection with embodiment?" (Hayles, 1999, quoted in Badmington, 2003).  If our consciousness is formed and matures within the physical body, then moving it to some other medium would most likely be an extremely traumatic experience indeed.]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Posthuman - Connected</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/austint/2011/11/08/posthuman-connected/#comment-224</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Great post Austin,
Your comments about the Teddy bot remind me about allot of the current robotics work in assistive / nursing aids.  Its an especially hot topic in Japan where there is a large aging population with less and less humans choosing to work in nursing.  I did some searching and found this video but I know there are many other projects in the works, from robotic / intelligent houses right the way through to  robots that can carry people to bed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJonPMa4Lic]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: On the differences between the cyborg and the posthuman</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/11/13/on-the-differences-between-the-cyborg-and-the-posthuman/#comment-124</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[That's an interesting point I missed, the posthuman perspective viewing the cyborg as the entire sum of its parts rather than a consciousness plus a set of deeply integrated tools.  It gets me thinking about upgrades.  If a cyborg upgrades its parts, is it still the same entity?  Or does the modified functionality offered by the new parts also modify the being itself?  Perhaps part of the distinction between the cyborg and the posthuman is a type of mind-body problem?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind-body_problem

An interesting avenue to explore.  Thanks Jeremy.]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Summary: Week 8</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/11/13/summary-week-8/#comment-107</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Cheers Jeremy,
Your comments always prompt me to pause and consider my thoughts more deeply, thanks!!!  Thanks also for the link, interesting stuff.  And a great question.  Certainly I'd agree (with Chomsky and many others) that language is the primary medium which allowed intelligence, culture and organisation (and therefore distributed cognition) to evolve, so in that sense it is a very real tool.  

Media theory tells us that meaning is constructed in the mind of the receiver; so we could claim therefore that natural language can be an inaccurate communication tool.  But there are many types of languages.  As a web developer, I use a variety of different languages (as tools) every day.  Symbolic languages (be they code or otherwise) can allow for far greater precision of expression and therefore accurate sharing of meaning or semantics.  Its interesting to think how this sharpening of precision might be affecting us individually, and it has obvious consequences for humanity as a whole.  Much to think about as always, thanks Jeremy!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Week 8: What are you, a freakin' cyborg? What does that mean?</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/11/14/week-8-what-are-you-a-freakin-cyborg-what-does-that-mean/#comment-69</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hear hear Carol!  I'm stumbled onto Haraways cult following too and thus found myself questioning what it was that annoys me about her writing.  I definitely find her to be overly demonstrative and stylized for the sake of it, so it was refreshing to hear your views.  A challenging read to be sure but especially so when the language distracts from the content.  I think that the fictional super high tech cyborg is a distraction from the more important issue of how technology modifies our thoughts, behaviors, actions and interactions so perhaps she focuses too much on this.  

You ask if a PDA is any different to a notebook so will find Andy Clark &amp; David J. Chalmers essay, The Extended Mind to be particularly interesting.  http://consc.net/papers/extended.html]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Virtual Ethnography</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/virtual-ethnography/#comment-48</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Wow Ania this is brilliant,
I really like the way you've presented the whole piece.  As I read it I felt like I was opening lots of little windows into the Twitter community.  To be honest, prior to reading this I had always considered Twitter to be less of a community and more of a tool for self promotion - perhaps due to the "sound bite" nature of tweets and the fact to be noticed in such a crowded group requires a bit of work.  I love the quote that the feeling of belonging to the community "usually occurs when the participant starts participating more actively and experiences reciprocity and mutuality first-hand", and when I think about that, it is probably true to a degree in any community.  Its almost as if the very act of sharing something useful with others is creates a type of currency and reputation for group members.  Really exploring enjoyed this, thanks!]]></description>
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				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/week-by-week/block-2-virtual-communities/all-the-ethnographies-in-one-place/#comment-757</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[@Geraldine  I was really looking forward to this one after reading your thoughts beforehand, and it's great Geraldine!  But where can we leave comments?  Should we create timetoast accounts or do you have somewhere else?
Cheers]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Ethnography</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/gracee/2011/11/04/ethnography/#comment-46</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Me too, I really enjoyed this one.  
I read the text before the Prezi presentation and must admit that I didn't quite get the same sense of community at first.  However seeing the user posts really cemented the idea for me.  I'd agree with Jen that it's a great to see a community emerging from something that isn't formally created as with a single site, and you have really captured that well.   Also didn't realize scientists love cocktails so much :-) Cheers!!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Mini Digital Ethnographic Study: Diaspora</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/11/03/mini-digital-ethnographic-study-diaspora/#comment-72</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Thanks Jeremy,
Discourse analysis is a new concept for me but having done some preliminary reading I'd definitely agree.  Given more time it would be very interesting to look at Diaspora in such a light.  Thanks too for the link.  Having worked as a web developer since the late 90s and implemented many ecommerce solutions, there are no new ideas there for me but I am delighted that a wider audience is beginning to notice that they are in fact the product rather than the customer.  Perhaps its another spark to start a fire!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Mini Digital Ethnographic Study: Diaspora</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/11/03/mini-digital-ethnographic-study-diaspora/#comment-70</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Thanks all for your interesting comments.  I'll address them individually below.  It's good to see such interest in this topic.

@Neil
It is an interesting choice of name but I think they actually regret it now.  The original idea was for Diaspora pods to spread over the Internet, almost organically.  The project logo of dandelion seeds blowing off in the wind really captures this idea well.  However I think the name doesn't really capture the concept of connections very well.  The developers make a brief mention of this in the second video (which is admittedly quite technical and probably difficult to view for non programmers). 

I think there has always been a counter culture working to promote real freedom (rather than the supposed "freedom" offered by free market globalization).  The emergence of services like Facebook and their dodgy practices have highlighted the problems to a wider audience, so perhaps its a question of more people tuning in rather than a resurgence of an old idea. You're right that freedom is often a fragile luxury and it would be nice to think that Diaspora can help this but it is still quite easy for oppressive regime to disable or block such services.  Still, it's a step in the right direction and hopefully just the first of many.

@Austin
Thanks Austin.  Glad to introduce you to Moglen, he is one of my heroes.  I know you are interested in Second Life; I actually discovered him myself by chatting with a random stranger in SL!  You're right, Zuckerburg deserves all that and more!

@Jen
Thanks for pointing out Hines observations about objectivity, I suppose I missed the point but it's good to know.  I really did wonder how it could be possible to immerse oneself in a community and still remain an objective observer.  Actually I did mention the study in my profile when I posed the question to the community, since I thought it would be the best way to avoid any ethical dilemmas down the line. I suspect you're right about the newness being an issue, but I do hope that the bonds are strong enough to make this succeed; only time will tell I suppose.

@Grace
It is exciting isn't it!  Personally I'd like to see an end to FB but as i understand it, that's not the aim of the developers.  They claim to be going after a different space.  It would really be a David and Goliath situation anyway and would probably result in Diaspora being crushed somehow.  Still, we can hope!

@Carol
Cheers Carol, brilliant picture!  You're right, it is getting scary now.  Everything we do produces data in some way.  I had a similar conversation with a colleague on Friday about behavioural targeting; we are doing some similar research and have both noticed highly specific advertising everywhere we go online lately.  It is very easy to forget that we generate this data, and the location based stuff is downright Orwellian when you consider its potential for monitoring and profiling.  Whenever I speak with people about this topic the response usually goes along the lines of "well I have nothing to hide so why worry about it?".  But I think that is really missing the point.  Illegality isn't the issue, and the real dangers probably haven't even been realised yet.  I'm with you, lets take the power back!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: GA-MMA Virtual Ethnography</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/austint/2011/10/31/ga-mma-virtual-ethnography/#comment-77</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A fascinating and very detailed piece Austin!  I really enjoyed the insights you've shared with us.  Thanks also for the link to the message extraction tool, I'm sure i will find a use for it in my professional life.  It's interesting to see the spikes in communication that occur when a user needs something; for me, that is a real sign of there being a community spirit.  Your personal anecdote is very poignant.  No doubt if you have made such connections within the group then many others must also have done so.  Thanks for sharing!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Mini Ethnography Assignment</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/neilb/2011/11/03/mini-ethnography-assignment/#comment-38</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is a great way to present your findings Neil.  It gives a really clear picture of how the group interacts with one another.  I did need your supporting text to figure out what is actually being shared but I can't see a way around that.  I just looked them up in Google and it does look like a really interesting group - looking forward to digging into it a bit more on their website.  Cheers!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Mumsnet ethnography</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/10/29/mumsnet-ethnography/#comment-44</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Great piece Carol.  I must confess to not having heard of Mumsnet before now but it sounds fascinating and extremely useful.  I'd agree with your statement that since the network is perceived as having a cultural and political capital that this may bias the ethnographer, and I've also run into similar issues with my own study.  

Another interesting point you raise is that the typical user is perceived as being middle class and white.  Could this be because that is the typical demographic with the necessary time and digital literacy skills to use such a network?  Working class mums often don't have such luxuries.]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: </title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/week-by-week/block-2-virtual-communities/all-the-ethnographies-in-one-place/#comment-713</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi guys,
I've posted my ethnography to my blog.  You can check it out here:

http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/11/03/mini-digital-ethnographic-study-diaspora/]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Visual Artefact 1.0</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/10/11/visual-artefact-1-0/#comment-50</link>

                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[I take your point that we have certainly always been close to technology, and its probably true that if we had never learned to use tools, our evolution would have effectively stopped on the African savanna; or gone in a very different direction.  But I'm not sure that our relationship with technology defines us.  A naked person hunting with her bare hands is no less human than a suburbanite checking QR price codes in the supermarket on her iphone, its just that one is easier than the other.  I think that it's our ability to see the potential of tools which drives us to adopt them.  But the point here is that in adopting technology we are making a decision to modify our natural behavior.  Then again, what is natural?  Lots of food for thought,
Thanks for the comment!]]></description>
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                <dc:creator>Daniel Griffin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[What a fascinating interpretation Ania!  I didn't consider that when I created it and to be honest, I had intended it to be a bit more ominous than you've suggested, but I love the hopeful and Utopian spin that you have on it.  It would be wonderful to achieve true harmony with technology one day.

Thanks!!!]]></description>
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