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https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/17/panasonics-wearable-blinkers-concentrate-open-plan-offices-technology/amp/

Panasonic's human blinkers help people concentrate in open-plan offices

Panasonic's Future Life Factory is developing wearable blinkers, designed to limit your sense of sound and sight, and help you focus on what's directly in front of you.

Oct 17, 2018 at 2:48pmWeb
Show threadsamOct 17, 2018
"Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. [...] The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen."
Show threadsamOct 17, 2018
the right way to think about the open-plan office is not in terms of "lost productivity" or "distraction" but in terms of discipline and observation
Show threadLeonOct 17, 2018
@mardiroos thanks I hate it
Show threadknzkateOct 17, 2018
@mardiroos this is may be the most egregious example of invent a problem to sell a solution ive seen yet
Show threadWTF FloridaOct 17, 2018
@mardiroos Behold, humans.
Show threadthinkin bout elvesOct 17, 2018
@mardiroos
Very literal interpretation of employees as workhorses imo
Show threadI'm camera rightOct 17, 2018
@mardiroos Look, I'm the last person to kinkshame, but NOPE
Show thread_&Oct 17, 2018
@mardiroos hmmm, how do we say that we're reducing worker distraction, without hurting the sense of dread and observation that actually distracts them?
Show thread_&Oct 17, 2018
@mardiroos I've got a brilliant idea for how to improve my cubicle farm: cubicle extenders that reach to the ceiling, that will cut out a lot of distractions
Show thread_&Oct 17, 2018
@mardiroos this makes me think really strongly of the Better Off Ted where they made itchy, uncomfortable chairs because the angry office workers were more productive, and the rate of "quitting in rage and disgust" was low enough to be acceptable
Show threadsamOct 17, 2018
@_ampersand lmfao yes. I remember being shocked by how cutting Better Off Ted was in general
Show thread_&Oct 17, 2018
@mardiroos I should rewatch it, I only remember scattered gags like the mouse and the semen quality. The little ads they played for their mad science products ruled hard and should just be a meme on their own.
Show threadfollow @[email protected]Oct 17, 2018
@mardiroos how many humiliations will we tolerate
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Show threadsamOct 17, 2018
@thatcosmonaut a seemingly endless amount if they are framed as innovation
Show threadVegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻Oct 17, 2018

@mardiroos liberals: heh sorry to bother you is quite a movie but it's maybe a bit too out there

capitalism: