Quote of the day: Scott Nearing on aging
From Helen Nearing's quietly amazing essay on Scott Nearing's decision to die (at 99): Work helps prevent one from getting old. My work is my life. I cannot
Another add to the pile: “Infinite Reality”
While I've read most of the technical articles that Jeremy Bailenson's lab has published (though from his perch in Xerox PARC, Nick Yee is giving his alma mater
Add to the to-read pile: Evolution and the Emergent Self
From Salon: The Internet allows us to do all kinds of things we never imagined possible. It lets us communicate with people across the world. We can learn
On Internet, information remember YOU: Evgeny Morozov on Delete
Okay, I have no idea what that title means. But I wanted to flag this review: According to Mayer-Schönberger, we have committed too much information to “external memory,”
Delete
Just found a good interview with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, in the Guardian: In Delete, Mayer-Schönberger traces the history of...
“Forgetting as a feature, not a bug”
Reading the great article but Liam Bannon, director of the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick, on forgetting as a feature, not a bug. His central insight
How computers and humans enact memory and accuracy
I'll save my current thinking about this subject for the book-- I'm trying to explain how our interactions with computers, and the language we employ when talking about
Frustration in computers
If you were looking for a subject where most people would think, "I live it, so tell me why I have to dive into the scholarly literature on
Library as Incubator: Do we really need more collaborative spaces?
Via Ariel Aberg-Riger's Twitter feed, I came across the Library as Incubator Project, a collaboration that "highlights the ways that libraries and artists can work together:" At a
My life these days, as reflected by my bookshelf
This pretty much covers it. via flickr The hard-to-see book on the left is Susan Greenfield's ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century; on the right, Steven