Reconnecting.calm
I came across Tom Mahon's name when I was working on the digital Sabbath chapter of my book. In the 1990s, Tom was one of the first advocates
The Slow Media manifesto
I just came across this Slow Media manifesto, written in 2010:The first decade of the 21st century, the so-called ‘naughties’, has brought profound changes to the technological foundations
What would a Tibetan Book of Dead Computers say?
[I should preface this by confessing that 99% of what I know about the Tibetan Book of the Dead comes from the wild movie Enter the Void, a
“You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave”
Washington Post has an interesting profile of Katherine Losse, the author of a new inside look at Facebook.Not long after Katherine Losse left her Silicon Valley career and
Augmented reality, old school: glasses that make women fuzzy?
Via Jezebel, the Times of Israel reports on one of the more interesting examples of augmented reality I've seen in a while: the Committee for Purity in the
Abigail Sellen on lifelogging
Just came across an interview on CBC Spark with my former Microsoft Research colleague Abigail Sellen. She talks about lifelogging and what's wrong with the idea of total
We may have free will after all: Reinterpreting the readiness potential
From the New Scientist: A 30-year-old classic experiment that is often used to argue against free will might have been misinterpreted. In the early 1980s, Benjamin Libet at
“I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident”
Submitted without comment: "I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident," Texas college student Chance Bothe says he texted a friend just before
“With 24/7 media overstimulation… do I really need a jet to throw me off my sleep schedule?”
Author Adam Sachs argues that jet lag is overrated as an explanation for feelings of displacement: With 24/7 media overstimulation coming at me from every corner of the
Philadelphia, unfortunately, will NOT have a sidewalk e-lane for textestrians
This is the lede buried in an AP article about distracted walking (something I wrote about last week): As an April Fool's Day joke with a serious message,