“The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future” is a book from Kevin Kelly that tries to anticipate the near future of technology.
My Goodreads.com review:
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin KellyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book was pretty interesting, and it is an easy read if you are a “future enthusiast”.
I think the author was pretty spot on on identifying the current trends shaping technology. The author says he tries to not speculate too much about the future but rather just take existing trends and push them further. Well, there is definitely some wild speculation there, but I think it is more to illustrate potential technologies rather than assert exactly how the future will be.
There is one point that made me uneasy: his defense of mindlessness. Kelly spend a lot of time justifying how our scattered attention is not a problem, how it is just a welcome evolution forced by technology; how it doesn’t matter much that you can finish a single article in one go without ten times checking ten social feeds. The irony is that people that actually read his book probably don’t fall into this category, or at least are trying not too. After spending years without reading a single books because I couldn’t take my eyes off various time-wasting stuffs on the net, I discovered the benefit of mindfulness, cut off social medias time and finally learnt again to read (to this day this is still a hard exercice of attention). Maybe it means I am old, but I believe mindfulness is important and it will be a challenge for future generations to hold it in the face of so much attention grabbers.
With that said, I enjoyed the book a lot overall.
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Sashiko (刺し子, literally “little stabs” or “little pierce”) is a form of decorative reinforcement stitching (or functional embroidery) from Japan that started out of practical need during the Edo era (1615-1868). Traditionally used to reinforce points of wear or to repair worn places or tears with patches, making the darned piece ultimately stronger and warmer, this running stitch technique is often used for purely decorative purposes in quilting and embroidery. The white cotton thread on the traditional indigo blue cloth (said to recall snow falling around old farmhouses[1]) gives sashiko its distinctive appearance, though decorative items sometimes use red thread.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
So in a nutshell Sashiko look like this :
So in addition with the book I buy some week ago, I receive special shashiko needle, the original white threads that’s write in Japanese seems to be the real thing and an indigo clothes.
So I have everything to try to make sample of the technique, rest the planning to do, looks really exciting !!!
I’m gonna need a white chalk to transfert the patterns and that would be it 🤪
As an open door find that could be an amazing way to mend or personalise jeans.
~ 2-4 Servings ~ Time 3 h ~ 3 Days in the fridge ~
Ingredients
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300 gr heavy whipping cream
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150gr crème fraiche or sour cream
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150 gr fresh raspberries
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2 tbsp lemon juice
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1 tbsp coconut nectar
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1/2 tsp vanilla powder
Steps
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Clean the raspberries and keep 4 for topping
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Put the raspberries, coconut nectar, vanilla powder and lemon juice in a pan bring to boil and lower to simmer for 3 to 5 min until the berries are soft, set aside to cool completely.
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Pour the heavy whipping cream in a large bowl whisk to form peaks, gently fold through the sour cream
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swirl half of the cold raspberries mix juice in the cream mix real gently.
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Assemble a spoon of berries/cream in each 4 jars (or 2 for bigger serving) add a layer of the softened raspberries and juice repeat the process again and finally top with a fresh berries.
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Place 2h in the fridge to set up keep up to 3 days.
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