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We write articles, craft interactive experiments, and create tools that inspire people to reflect on their relationship with technology.

Joined December 2010
Awareness is now free for Mac (iamfutureproof.com/downloads…) and PC (iamfutureproof.com/downloads…)! Please give it a try and take healthy screen breaks!
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"celebrating…our dependence on digital information and the agony it causes…we should…produce less trivial information" blog.x1.com/post/11701330570…
Replying to @bjfogg
@bjfogg @moraveji Hey, we have a new project you and #calmingtech friends will appreciate: iamfutureproof.com/gadget-ru… (via @GadgetRule)
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Check out this awesome panel discussion of the pros and cons of social media at the Aspen Ideas Festival: fora.tv/2011/07/01/Knowledge…
Replying to @kevinrose
@kevinrose And if you'd be interested in writing a guest @GadgetRule on your tea practice, that would be awesome!
Replying to @kevinrose
@kevinrose After seeing your Wisdom 2.0 board discussion, I think you would enjoy our projects: iamfutureproof.com/tools/awa… and iamfutureproof.com/gadget-ru…
Watch Digital Nation. A thought-provoking PBS documentary on our "24/7 wired world" video.pbs.org/video/14029877…
Here are some codes for a free copy of Awareness from the Mac App Store: TWYFTHP4NFPL 9TRAKW79TT4F E6ALTLHKANMM N37KFKJ9HRWE PJ79W7T3YTRN
Awareness 1.1 for Lion was finally approved by Apple! It should hit the Mac App Store by tomorrow.
Damon Horowitz, in-house philosopher at Google, suggests that today's technology issues demand a Ph.D. in Philosophy chronicle.com/article/From-T…
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Mac Awareness users: Awareness doesn't run on Lion. We've known this for 3 months but are waiting on a fix from another party. ETA: 2 weeks.
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"Researchers warn against 'Facebook depression'" startribune.com/lifestyle/re… Tweens report feeling sad and excluded after reading Facebook updates.
Awareness (Mac) users: Awareness may crash if you hide the menu bar item. Please do not hide it to avoid the crash. A fix is on the way!
Introducing the Futureproof Library, featuring reviews of You Are Not a Gadget, and The Shallows iamfutureproof.com/notes/the…
Must-watch TED talk about the important conversations we need have regarding the role of technology in our lives. youtube.com/watch?v=MtLVCpZI…
"The things we may be unlearning, tweet by tweet—complexity, acuity, patience, wisdom, intimacy—are things that matter." nyti.ms/lQTt1d