Google is a search engine, not a Free Will Destruction Machine
The Memory Network has published a new essay by Nick Carr on computer versus human memory. This is a subject I've followed with great interest, and when I
The downside of flow: Machine gambling
I’m a big fan of the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: his book Flow is one of the most important thing I’ve read in the last ten years, and one of
Skiing isn’t exciting enough? Add email and phone calls!
For those of you who don't like to get away when you're getting away: It is the gadget that every workaholic will be clamouring for – a pair
Slow… everything… at the RSA
A couple years ago I got (improbably) an invitation to join the RSA, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. (An acquaintance of mine had just
Digital yoga: Lululemon on digital practice
I confess that usually I hear "Lululemon" as part of a cutting social observation of life in Silicon Valley, in a sentence with "Range Rover" and "Scandinavian stroller."
“This, I think, is what email wants most people to feel: powerless.”
Following my post last night about the irony of "addicting" social media, I ran across this piece asking "Is email evil?" It poses the Kevin Kelly-like question, what
Thought of the evening
If social media really is "addicting" (and I'm not entirely convinced that the term is correct) isn't it a strange sort of addiction where we are all each
Smartphones and sleepless nights in Northern Ireland
Problems keeping technology in balance aren't specific to the United States, according to Northern Ireland business Web site Business First Online: While technology ownership in Ireland has seen
Why don’t I Like-A-Hug?
A few days ago I came across this project in The Guardian: MIT students have developed a wearable extension to your social media existence that translates every virtual
“The future is in apps you don’t open”
Tech Crunch contributor Josh Costine argues that "the future is in apps you don't open:" “We’re going to move away from the era of ‘I have hundreds of