Slow Computing
Slow Computing Digital technologies should be making life easier. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and exposing us to extensive data extraction and…
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Slow Computing
Digital technologies should be making life easier. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and exposing us to extensive data extraction and profiling that helps determine our life chances. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play.
Is it then possible to experience the joy and benefits of computing, but to do so in a way that asserts individual and collective autonomy over our time and data? Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown seemed to create new opportunities for people to practice 'slow computing', but it quickly became clear that it was as difficult, if not more so, than during normal times. Drawing on the ideas of the 'slow movement', Slow Computing sets out numerous practical and political means to take back control and counter the more pernicious effects of