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Smartphones and sleepless nights in Northern Ireland

Problems keeping technology in balance aren't specific to the United States, according to Northern Ireland business Web site Business First Online: While technology ownership in Ireland has seen

By |2012-10-16T15:28:29-07:00October 16th, 2012|Attention / Distraction, Contemplative computing, Health / Medicine / Wellness, Social media, Statistics / Surveys, Technology, Time|Comments Off on Smartphones and sleepless nights in Northern Ireland

Frogs do NOT mindlessly boil to death if first put in cold water: A note on tech addiction

Alexis Madrigal sighs, "Another day, another New York Times story about technology addiction." He's pointing to a Matt Richtel article about concerns about technology addiction-- right in the

By |2012-07-24T14:25:25-07:00July 24th, 2012|Attention / Distraction, Contemplative computing, Sabbaths, Statistics / Surveys, Technology|Comments Off on Frogs do NOT mindlessly boil to death if first put in cold water: A note on tech addiction

New study: Multitasking may harm teenage girls’ social/emotion development, but real interaction cures it

Clifford Nass, Roy Pea, and the rest of the circle in the Stanford communications and education programs do some really interesting work on multitasking, our attitudes to computers,

By |2012-06-26T13:58:08-07:00June 26th, 2012|Contemplative computing, Kids, Science, Social media, Statistics / Surveys, Technology|Comments Off on New study: Multitasking may harm teenage girls’ social/emotion development, but real interaction cures it

20% of people do mobile work while driving. Not while sitting in a car. While driving it.

Living here in Silicon Valley, where the driving is terrible, I'm really not at all surprised by the very depressing statistics Klint Finley reported on in ReadWrite Enterprise:

By |2011-11-03T22:10:15-07:00November 3rd, 2011|Attention / Distraction, Contemplative computing, Statistics / Surveys, Technology|Comments Off on 20% of people do mobile work while driving. Not while sitting in a car. While driving it.
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