Abstract
This chapter is an introduction to the whole book. It describes the origins of the authors’ thinking about Slow Tech, stimulated by the comparison with the international Slow Food movement. Slow Food as an approach has been paralleled by several other trends in ‘slow’. In the field of technology, it has also had different manifestations: it has been associated with mindfulness, appropriate mobile telephony, and the need for a growth in resilience. As authors, we see going ‘slow’ as a call for reflection on the kind of world, and technologies, that we want and need. We call for a collective dialogue and collaborative movement on making ICT design more responsible, sustainable, and ethical.
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Patrignani, N., Whitehouse, D. (2018). Introduction. In: Slow Tech and ICT. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68944-9_1
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