So, does this Apple advert confirm all your fears about tech-addiction, or do you see how tech is just a tool for creativity?
Here’s what Huffington Post had to say about it.
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[VIDEO] #EndItMovement
A powerful video from the ‘End It Campaign’, based in the States, which has been raising awareness this year – and now asking for action. On their site:
SLAVERY IS WRONG.
YOU KNOW IT. WE KNOW IT. AS A COUNTRY, WE’VE OFFICIALLY KNOWN IT SINCE 1863. BUT HERE’S SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW — SLAVERY STILL EXISTS. WE WANT EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE 27 MILLION MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, JUST LIKE THEM, LIVING IN THE SHADOWS. IN BROTHELS. IN FACTORIES. IN QUARRIES. WORKING AS SLAVES. IN 161 COUNTRIES. INCLUDING OUR OWN. WE ARE HERE TO SHINE A LIGHT ON SLAVERY. NO MORE BONDAGE. NO MORE SEX TRAFFICKING. NO MORE CHILD LABORERS. NO MORE, STARTING NOW.
Numbers are also rising in the UK, and the UK government is introducing a new law with harsher penalties. What’s your slavery footprint?
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We all hide in closets?
This has been going around Facebook over the last few days – “we all have closets” – and we don’t need to compete about whose closets are “hardest”, they are all just “hard” [and we don’t need to make it harder for each other?]
It would be easy to mock people for not understanding the “politically correct hoops that I’d brought with me”, point out where they fell short, a lot harder to meet them where they are and understand that they are trying.
“That is their story, not yours”
Thanks to Sara Batts & Phil Ritchie who have drawn my attention to the following video from Milton Jones (by The Guardian)
A really interesting piece in the Guardian about a film made by Beeban Kidron re: the ‘real world’ on the Internet, with some debates I’d like to read more deeply into … I certainly believe that the Internet is a ‘real’ place, and that the film-maker has captured what some children really do online, but by terming it “documentary” it gives the impression this is the norm – which I am not convinced about, based on the research that I’ve engaged with:
“Yes of course, all that “cloud” and “like” and “friend” and “google” and “twitter”. The nursery language makes it seem a safe Teletubby land where nothing bad could happen. I wanted to make it clear to the kids who bought into that that actually this is real, it is all mappable like an empire. Are we all comfortable with this? Shouldn’t we demand not only that it sound safe for our children to explore, but that it is safe? When you make such arguments you get the response from the billionaires that they just own the pipes that stuff comes through. That is completely at odds with the knowledge that these companies – Google and Facebook and the rest – routinely take our data and sell it on to advertisers. Their business is clearly content, data. We have to start asking why they are not being made responsible for it.”
Looking forward to seeing the film anyway!