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For groups
The final step in organizing group conversations about computer use is to commit to remembering what has been said before. And to say it again. Working in situations where computer use is contentious, you may begin to find yourself saying "Do I really have to say this? Doesn't everyone know this?" and the answer is yes, you do. New things and enthusiasm for them displace a lot of people's interest in remembering old things.
In addressing what are perceived as new and unique conversations, framed as novel and mysterious, there is power in recall. There is also respect for those who have taken the time to converse about these issues in the past.
Within many mainstream conversations about computer use, there is a constancy to disinterest in the past. There are also people that are immediately suspect of old ways of knowing or doing things. Modeling interest in the past, whether that of the last conversation you convened, or the conversations of generations past, is something you can do when hosting a conversation.
Putting forward persistent references to past and to memory is a counter to the strategic amnesia of novelty. Tactically, forcing what is known into the frame of a conversation about computers almost immediately reduces the size of their import.
When you iterate your conversations to apply and re-apply what is already known, you shrink the proportions of the new technology and force it into step with history.