“New technologies breed new attitudes and habits so fast, sometimes, they hide”
Occasionally you run across a phrase that strikes you as well-constructed or elegant; then every rare once in a while you find one that you think, "I gotta
“disconnection is the closest I’ve come to living in another dimension”
Seattle Times columnist Mónica Guzman wrote a piece last month about going device-free for a week while vacationing in Colorado: It’s a culture shock, disconnection, if you’re as
The Buddha and the hard drive
We have an old computer that I wanted to give to a local electronics recycling drive, but because it had several years' personal data on it, I cracked
Is “self-knowledge through numbers” another way of saying “don’t ever go offline”?
NYU professor Anna Akbari has a piece in CNN about why she limits her the of smartphones and laptops in her classes. The experience of not being constantly
KPFA
I spent a much bigger part of the day than I'd expected doing an interview on KPFA. It's what they call an evergreen, and will be held until
“the fault is not in the zeros and ones, but in ourselves”
One of the last interviews in last week's grand round was with Jeff Schechtman at KVON. It was also one of the more perceptive and challenging. It's now
Article in The Almanac
I forgot to post about this last week, what with the excitement about the Kepler's reading and 16 back-to-back radio interviews, but The Distraction Addiction was the cover
PureWow: “A fascinating look at our addiction to technology”
As part of my continuing effort to mansplain technology and attention, I've got an interview on the Web site PureWow. This should give you a sense of the
The Distraction Addiction in the media
There's a short sidebar about digital distraction in Health magazine, and a review in the Jewish Times of South New Jersey. I hope the latter doesn't mention my
My talk at Kepler’s Bookstore
This past Tuesday I did a reading at Kepler's Bookstore, my local bookstore. Most of the crowd was family and friends, Peninsula School people (Peninsula is pretty important