Kevin Kelly is one of the founders of Wired Magazine, and child of the 1990s Internet boom. He has written an interesting book, What Technology Wants, written from the point of view of technology. According to Kelly, technology, like river morphology, creates its own course over time, resulting a convergences of form and function (think of the youtube-ization of, well, nearly everything). The intriguing part of the book, and why I will get a copy, is the chapter he devotes to the Amish approach to technology. Apparently, there is a role in Amish society for people that check out technology and then assess it in relation to Amish culture. Interesting, right? Could we learn from the Amish the “right-sizing” of our and our students’ technology use? Without reverting to Luddism (too late for that). Check out the blog post below for a view of the book, and see if you want to dive into it. Happy reading!
