CREATING BOUNDARIES WITH COMPUTERS

[nala walla]

I am interested in creating discussion about the very "up" topic of how we create boundaries with technology, especially computers, celfones, social networking sites. I have included a questionnaire about your relationship to and experiences with digital technologies. You can email or snail mail your questionnaire to me as you prefer. I will keep all responses completely anonymous. Thank you for your participation in this timely research.

Both the pace and scope of change in our lives brought about by megatechnology are unprecedented in human history. While it is clear that millions of people, businesses and insitutions all over the world use and enjoy modern technology, many are unsure about how to create useful and healthy boundaries with this exciting and fast-moving world. While we are often well-informed about the benefits technology has to offer, an adequate assessment of the negative effects (both potential and real) upon our bodies and health at several levels—individual, social, planetary—has yet to be made....Please take a moment to fill out the attached survey....Thank you!

[margit]

If you are interested, Nala wrote a very interesting article about this topic that you can read here, attached. She interviewed me for the paper, and the process was informative on a lot of levels, such as the ways that I coordinate materials in the computer screen, and how this mental and physical work is operating more than I realize, I also got more intimate with some of my attachments, and in fact my ability to see a lot of sides in the arguments around technology and ecology.
cool.
mg