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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/28/19 10:31 PM, Marcus Daniels
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I think GPS increases geographical curiosity, not undermines it.</pre>
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<p>I would say it apparently does *for you*, and in fact it supports
my own *deep curiosity*. I know (many) others who have lost any
vestigal sense of wayfinding they might have had, including taking
verbal directions or orienting on N/S/E/W or even "toward the
mountains or toward the river" without lots of awkward "why should
I have to know that?" <br>
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<p> I think the "confirmation bias" thread is exposing what I'm
nattering on about a bit better. <br>
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<p>Eric Smith wrote:</p>
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<p><i>The awareness that there is such an edifice, and that it is
something constructed, seems very close to Husserl’s arguments
that (in my language) we think of experience as a transparent
window through which we passively receive a reality, but it is
more like a painted surface on which we are constructing
things we believe to be co-registered with something outside
the window</i></p>
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<p>To expand Erics metaphor... I believe that the "intermediating
painted glass window", in contemporary technology is the "closed
cockpit, situational awareness" of modern warfare. All the
intermediation can be incredibly helpful. It can expand the
dynamic range of our senses ( IR, radar, sonar) and it can
provide some prioritization of focus (various alerts, etc.), but
it can *also* blunt and distort our intuition and therefore
understanding and the predictability that goes with it. <br>
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<p>Perhaps what I'm railing about is no more than the Map/Territory
conflation. As our maps get better (or more useful for specific
purposes), we become less practiced outside the specific purposes
encoded IN/BY the map. <br>
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<p>Returning to the "painted window" analogy, we need to choose
carefully the stylistic preferences of the painter, and for that,
we need to recognize there is a painter, and that "they is us" and
there *are* choices that can be made and they do matter. Does
choosing a pointillist or cubist or surrealist style for our
"window-painting" help us or hurt us? Do we, as the painters of
our own windows develop good skills and a strong aesthetic
awareness, or do we buy the cheap Hobby Lobby colored-plexiglass
stain-glass-by-by-number kit and copy patterns we find on
Pinterest or YouTube?<br>
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<p>Ramble,</p>
<p> - Steve<br>
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This technology is objectionable for a different reason: A good software architecture compresses out every pattern into parameterized macro or higher order function. There should be no need to say anything more than once. Whether or not that is achieved in practice is beside the point: Shoddy design should not be be enabled by developer tools.
On 7/28/19, 9:23 PM, "Friam on behalf of Steven A Smith" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.comonbehalfofsasmyth@swcp.com"><friam-bounces@redfish.com on behalf of sasmyth@swcp.com></a> wrote:
Anyone here who codes regularly (daily?) who thinks this is useful?
As an aging has-been, I can see how it could extend my semi-competence
quite a long way... but could undermine something fundamental the way
GPS seems to be undermining geospatial awareness and wayfinding skills?
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