Do Nothing

Check this out:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/01/24/do.nothing/

Interesting idea! I get the spiritual intentions of this. But my objections to this are the same as my objections to any attempt to design spiritual/religious practice into technology. Is this our place? More importantly, why can't people do this without technology??? It's a sad state of affairs if the only way we can meditate is through our computers.

How is this any different from the truly non-spiritual Wii Fit meditation module, where users stare at a flame and sit perfectly still? Who are we kidding? This is not the path to a fundamental shift in our orientation to technologies. It is simply using existing (highly flawed) technologies for spiritual purposes. This goes back to the Bell post, very early on. We can always appropriate our technologies for spiritual/religious purposes. But I propose we try to do more.