Came across this article by Michael Silberstein and Anthony Chemero in the course of re-reading a recent experiment on Heidegger's concept of ready-to-hand: "Complexity and Extended Phenomenological-Cognitive Systems"
The Guardian recently had a profile of self-publishing success Amanda Hocking, who writes novels incredibly quickly, then self-publishes them on Amazon. While she's managed to become a phenom
Charles Fernyhough has an essay in the Guardian about memory and the self. Nothing terribly new if you already have more than a passing familiarity with the scientific
From Kentaro Toyama's article in the Boston Review: Technology—no matter how well designed—is only a magnifier of human intent and capacity. It is not a substitute. [via Morgan
I recently read an interesting, critical article looking at the One Laptop Per Child program and its assumptions about computers and learning. Coauthors Mark Warschauer and Morgan Ames
Digitalnun, the prioress at Holy Trinity monastery just outside Oxford, write about contemplative computing: From time to time, someone asks how long I spend online. It is the
Monday I was interviewed for the Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio show Encounter, which deals with contemporary religion and society. I talked about contemplative computing and spirituality. The show
...I was settling into Cambridge. Wow. my road, via flickr
I've been interested in the use of the term "addiction" in technology and social media-- when the high-tech industry started talking about technology being addictive (or put more
Slate contributor Katie Roiphe has a piece about Freedom, the turn-off-the-Internet app. How many people made New Year’s resolutions to spend less time on the Internet? Yet another