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Let's make conscientious digital hygiene a mainstream demand for Active Tech products that retool passive addictions into active habits that work for us.

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The connected lifestyle is a sham. Automated technology providers lure us to apps with—speciously altruistic promises of connectedness, convenience, and personalization—thinly veiled profit motives...🧵


While Google has stripped us all of our anonymity, our right to be forgotten, and our right to forget, it uses own massive resources, technology, and lawyers to cover it's own digital trail. Read the NY Times article entitled: "How Google Spent 15 Years Creating a Culture of…


We must recognize that passive digital technology use can be a destructive addiction Unplug solutions must integrate habit formation mechanics or they will fail to subvert addictions. Further, the social acceptability of digital addiction stops us from appreciating the…

ActiveTechOrg's tweet image. We must recognize that passive digital technology use can be a destructive addiction

Unplug solutions must integrate habit formation mechanics or they will fail to subvert addictions.

Further, the social acceptability of digital addiction stops us from appreciating the…

We can all sense something’s wrong with our digital routine. At one time or another, we’ve all deployed digital countermeasures: we deleted email, news, and social apps, used online time limiters, or killed our internet connection. But eventually, without a comprehensive plan…

ActiveTechOrg's tweet image. We can all sense something’s wrong with our digital routine.

At one time or another, we’ve all deployed digital countermeasures:

we deleted email, news, and social apps, used online time limiters, or killed our internet connection.

But eventually, without a comprehensive plan…

Make time to unplug every day Our best defense against the digital addictions that make us vulnerable to technology providers who profit from our personal data is to cultivate a personal discipline of unplugging. Unplugging is a necessary low-tech counterpart to high-tech data…

ActiveTechOrg's tweet image. Make time to unplug every day

Our best defense against the digital addictions that make us vulnerable to technology providers who profit from our personal data is to cultivate a personal discipline of unplugging.

Unplugging is a necessary low-tech counterpart to high-tech data…

Passive technology use backseats our personal agenda. “Every technology is an expression of the human will [to] expand our power and control over our circumstances—over nature, over time and distance [and] over one another” (Carr (@roughtype), 2019, p. 45). While there are good…

ActiveTechOrg's tweet image. Passive technology use backseats our personal agenda.

“Every technology is an expression of the human will [to] expand our power and control over our circumstances—over nature, over time and distance [and] over one another” (Carr (@roughtype), 2019, p. 45).

While there are good…

Outsourcing our memory weakens it. “We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence.” What The Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr, 2010,…

ActiveTechOrg's tweet image. Outsourcing our memory weakens it.

“We don’t constrain our

mental powers when we

store new long-term memories.

We strengthen them.

With each expansion of our

memory comes an

enlargement of our

intelligence.”

What The Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr, 2010,…

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