Tag: Basecamp
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On Diminished Substitutes
Jonathan Safran Foer writes a piece for the Sunday edition of the NY Times that raises a number of troubling questions about the degree with which we’re using technology (e.g. smartphones, email) as replacements for face-to-face communication. Foer calls these forms of communication “diminished substitutes”: It’s easier to make a phone call than to schlep to…