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Examples of waste on the internet:

 

Cornify.com – seems like a waste of time.  Maybe not wasteful if you change it to notes.  It’s fairly sophisticated technology. 

 

Time is not only a commodity.  It’s cause we think of it as in volume.  Two ways to think of: commodity or experience.  It’s the underlying connecting feature is experience.

 

Is local emails a waste?

No: sharing without interruption. 

Yes: might be more efficient to talk.

 

There are complications to the technology.  When we assume that the technology can do everything, we don’t think about perhaps think about what’s the best technology.

 

Is there a benefit to “wasting” time.

 

What kind of waste can we think of?

Time

Energy – Physical (biometric, cognitive etc), electrical

Resource – material, Financial

Potential - opportunity

 

What’s more wasteful, using something fully for a short period of time or using something rarely over a long period of time?

-       is it more physical waste or more waste of resource

 

To a certain extent there are trade off’s are good for the power of tech.

 

Shifting focus and change of technique. 

 

Waste is relative / is universal?

When holding on to legacy things (ie qwerty keyboard) does it serve a purpose?  With the legacy issues can we let go and change?

 

We collectively made the decisions to keep things the same way.  Ie keyboard.

 

Efficiency at the design level are built in way before we decide to use it.  We dumb your body to use it.  Someone along the way someone made a decision that impacts our participation.  We just think of what we do as what we do without thinking back.

 

Some types of waste are universal.  Some waste just can’t be used.

 

Ie Gillet business model.  à printers and ink.

We perpetuate the model when we engage.  Levels of comfort.

 

You can teach yourself to do but might not enjoy. 

When we felt compelled to do something we might not actually have done something.  Ie product red.  But we feel comfortable when we have an object that says we did do something.

 

If we feel fulfilled by a passive action we won’t take on an active one.

 

Petition don’t do anything.  Passive action placate ourselves, do they equal participation. 

 

There is this idea what when we ‘engage’ in the passive activities, they might lessen the impact of the active.  There is a social badge of honour.

 

Often the structure and institutional aspects of organizing turn people off the whole active idea.  It’s not what they expected and move on.

 

In the end, it doesn’t matter whether or not it had anything to do with you or not.  So long as you believe you did something, you might continue with the active participation. 

 

How waste translates to the gift economy.  Various manifestations like creative commons, open source à economy of excess.

 

Exchange without having a direct and tangible return.  So that because you have shared things, when you need things it’ll be there.  à the spirit of sharing.

 

How do people maximum that potential to make something to do something etc.

 

Participation not just in interaction with others but also with getting further than what you could on your own.