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Aug 4, 2014
"A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera." --Dorothea Lange
Tools Of Our Tools: The Role Of Technology In Our Lives
These days, we function in many ways as the "tools of our tools" -- beings bound to our devices and technology. "But even as our ancestors developed tools over time to leverage their muscles, senses and brains, they also developed tools to leverage their soul, or psyche, so as to be composed within themselves, and thus try to establish just and civil societies." Here Tom Mahon shares his thoughts on the power and place of technology in our lives, and the inner tools that can offer ballast on a personal and societal level.
BE THE CHANGE
Whether a phone, computer or pen, approach one tool you use today with the sort of mindfulness Tom Mahon describes.
