On productivity, speed, and normal life and work
Biz Tech Magazine's Ricky Ribeiro has one of those tech piece about technology driving our love of speed that sounds kind of upbeat, but actually is really depressing once
“In the war against the cult of speed, the front line is inside our heads”
I hate to admit it, but despite spending years working around its edges, I've never read Carl Honore's In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed. (Hey,
Students “could not go for 15 minutes without engaging their devices”
So reports Larry Rosen, a professor who studies multitasking among students. He recently did a study in which students from middle school through college were told to “study something
White Men Wearing Google Glasses was bound to happen sooner or later
...and now it has. On Tumblr, natch.
“Text neck” is now a Thing
So says CNN: The average human head weighs 10 pounds in a neutral position -- when your ears are over your shoulders. For every inch you tilt your
Shorter HTC First™ AT&T Commercial: “Blow me, reality”
Seriously, what the Hell is going on with these Facebook Home commercials? I mean, have companies given up on the idea that the cellphone is anything other than
How you spend your online hour
Experian released a new study on Internet use on personal computers: Experian Marketing Services, a global provider of integrated consumer insight, targeting and cross channel marketing, reveals that
“I wanted to figure out what the internet was ‘doing to me,’ so I could fight back”
Verge writer Paul Miller (the Verge does some excellent work now, in case you haven't noticed) spent a year offline, and writes about the experience. It's sort of
“we are disenfranchised by the concepts of invisibility and disappearance:” Arguments against invisible interfaces
For a long time I've been suspicious about the desire to make interfaces "invisible" or "intuitive." Mainly I think that, when it comes to interacting with the world
“I don’t think we want our bodies to be UIs:” wrong ways to think about wearables
John Pavlus argues in Technology Review that, contrary to the vision of Google Glass and designers who imagine being able to automatically trigger actions by just doing unobtrusive