eg a preference for webcam cover flap
reassuringly solid tactile hardware as visible, feelable, weighty, form-holding mechanisms to prevent hackability, physical materiality and characteristics carried over to digital realm
complex tech indistinguishable from magic, -> potential for bad magic -> folklore, fear and protection, talismans etc

the many ways in which this comes about in each new age of too much noise.
particular sites or blogs curating good content
Facebook pages or other social media accounts that curate external content
clip compilations for video formats
repost-only blogs and short-form video accounts
search engine curation that has now become AI assisted search
personality driven clip shows on traditional and newer media with varying levels of success
the whole genre of reddit rereads
currently, substack(?) or medium subscriptions or general email newsletters that feature miscellaneous links, signal a return to earlier internet need fir curation but now due to oversaturation

most of the actually valuable human labours are actually slow, built up, over time
exceptions eg emergency care and rescue, (performance? exercise? sex?)

knowledge work
research and study
maintenance of spaces
maintenance of objects
gardening, planting, growing
self-growth and healing
birthing and raising humans
educating and learning
sharing experience and knowledge and building bonds
care work
crafts
etc !

cultural or infrastructural? both?
where non-instant retrieval is appropriate

Resources

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/easy-to-make-ultra-low-power-electronics-could-charge-out-of-thin-air https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3334480.3381829

low tech

against forced progressivism and tech for tech’s sake
prioritising the system working as intended for collective and individual goals rather than over-focusing on using a specific tool or technology

slow tactics as electrical metaphor, as a “relation to technical/material/electrical procedures, or as a conscious act of mindfully lowering, balancing, and re-orienting the intensity of the (electric) current, consciously stabilizing the relationship between the (electrical) input and the output, and thus, to some extent, taking control of this current.” (Smolicki, 2017)

alternative display of data
alternative peripherals
sustainable methods of power and storage

https://specialprojects.studio/project/paper-phone/

tangible capture and recording

need for tangible capture/recording, materiality, standalone device - why not just phones?
- pros and cons
- tangibility
- disability, sensory and proprioceptive differences
- curb cut effect and other disabled people who’d benefit