David Shing on the immanent end of friending
From the Guardian: David Shing, the man who helps figure out future trends for AOL, is fed up with Facebook and Twitter. In fact he has told his
Colbert on the cloud
I'm deep in writing right now, so until I surface, here's Stephen Colbert's genius piece on the cloud and memory. The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full
Derrick de Kerckhove on the Augmented Mind
Via Kathy Gill, I found this interview with Derrick de Kerckhove, author of a new short book, Augmented Mind: Q: Could you define for our readers what 'Augmented Mind'
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
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.
Csikszentmihalyi on memory and flow
From Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow: All forms of mental flow depend on memory, either directly or indirectly. (121)... As far back as there are records of human intelligence, the
Reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow
This weekend I started reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow. First published in the early 1990s, it's now considered something of a classic in psychology, and has influenced scientists in
The literary undergrowl of the old regime*
When I first got into arguments about “what the Web is doing to our culture and our brains,” I was manging editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It was