Tony Perrettet on writing and distraction
My fellow futurist and author Anthony Townsend pointed me to this New York Times piece by Tony Perrettet on writing and distraction: Literary distraction seems a very modern problem.
Alok Khorana on electronic medical records’ impact on physicians’ notes
Last year Alok Khorana published a really excellent short piece on the impact of electronic medical records (EMRs, those things that are supposed to save medicine) on the
Quote of the day: Stewart Brand on Spacewar
From his 1972 article on the early videogame: Spacewar as a parable is almost too pat. It was the illegitimate child of the marrying of computers and graphic
Another Zenware data-point: iA’s Writer
Last night I stumbled on Writer, a writing tool designed by Information Architects Inc., a Tokyo-based Web design and branding firm. Rather like OmmWriter, it's a high-end minimalist
This XKCD comic comes dangerously close to summarizing everything I’m thinking about
Not completely. But close. from the brilliant xkcd
Edward Tenner and offloading memory
Edward Tenner in The Atlantic on what is at stake in offloading memory: The issue isn't whether most information belongs online rather than in the head. We were
Do nudges work as public policy?
Interesting piece in the Guardian about arguments over the efficacy of nudges in dealing with social problems. The Cameron government has been very keen on the idea that
Internet use and transactive memory
Julian Barnes once declared that Memory is identity. I have believed this since… oh, since I can remember. You are what you have done; what you have done
Quote of the day: Hieronimo Squarciafico
From Hieronimo Squarciafico, Memory and Books, 1477: Abundance of books makes men less studious; it destroys memory and enfeebles the mind by relieving it of too much work.
Coverage in the Francophone blogosphere
For those readers who don't speak English (and if you don't, what are you doing trying to read this?), this article is a French summary of my Marseille talk.