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“One positive person can spread Happiness to more than 1,000 people, but through the power of technology we can reach out to millions”

I've recently been talking to people in locations as far-flung as Finland and Australia about designing programs that support mindfulness and flow, so I suspect there'll be a

By |2014-12-04T19:19:18-08:00December 4th, 2014|Attention / Distraction, Contemplative computing, Health / Medicine / Wellness, Science, Technology|Comments Off on “One positive person can spread Happiness to more than 1,000 people, but through the power of technology we can reach out to millions”

Science says parents with smartphones are more likely to let their children fall into snake pits

Yale economist Craig Palsson has a new article [pdf] asking whether the growing use of smartphones by parents of young children is responsible for the increased rate of

By |2014-11-12T20:04:02-08:00November 12th, 2014|Attention / Distraction, Health / Medicine / Wellness, Kids|Comments Off on Science says parents with smartphones are more likely to let their children fall into snake pits

“He found that he almost ‘craved’ using the device:” on reports of Google Glass addiction

You might have seen articles recently on a case of a man with Google Glass addiction. It’s been written about in the Guardian, BBC, Fast Company, io9, and

By |2014-10-15T22:01:05-07:00October 15th, 2014|Contemplative computing, Health / Medicine / Wellness, Science, Technology|Comments Off on “He found that he almost ‘craved’ using the device:” on reports of Google Glass addiction

Singaporean psychiatrists want recognition of “internet and digital device addiction”

According to an Agence France-Press article that first appeared in the South China Morning Post and was recently reprinted in, of all places, Uganda’s New Vision, Psychiatrists in Singapore

By |2014-08-24T16:04:00-07:00August 24th, 2014|Attention / Distraction, Contemplative computing, Health / Medicine / Wellness, Technology|Comments Off on Singaporean psychiatrists want recognition of “internet and digital device addiction”

“Loneliness in old age doesn’t occur just because older people haven’t learned to use the internet”

The Guardian reports on a recent report from the “centre-right Policy Exchange think tank… [that] recommends £875m should be spent on training the 6.2 million mainly elderly people

By |2014-05-29T09:12:32-07:00May 29th, 2014|Contemplative computing, Health / Medicine / Wellness, Technology|Comments Off on “Loneliness in old age doesn’t occur just because older people haven’t learned to use the internet”
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