{"id":1707,"date":"2013-05-13T13:43:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2013-05-13T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:43:35","slug":"conscious-computing-how-to-take-control-of-your-life-online-technology-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/13\/conscious-computing-how-to-take-control-of-your-life-online-technology-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online | Technology | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if there were a way to use the internet \u2013 and all our web-connected phones and tablets and laptops and games consoles \u2013 to foster rather than erode our attention spans, and to replace that sense of edgy distractedness with calm?<\/p>\n<p>This is the question motivating the embryonic movement known variously as &#8220;calming technology&#8221;, &#8220;the slow web&#8221;, &#8220;conscious computing&#8221; or Pang&#8217;s preferred term &#8220;contemplative computing&#8221;. Its members hope that we might be able to perform a sneaky bit of jujitsu on the devices that dominate our lives: to turn the agents of distraction into agents of serenity.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2013\/may\/10\/conscious-computing-twitter-facebook-google?utm_source=buffer&amp;utm_medium=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=Buffer&amp;utm_content=buffer5f94a\">Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online | Technology | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if there were a way to use the internet \u2013 and all our web-connected phones and tablets and laptops and games consoles \u2013 to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[54,79,474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}