Once again, XKCD makes an excellent point
As always. The underlying point that today's parents (like me) grew up with MTV, video games, computers, and other weapons of mass distraction is a good one. For
Air, Food, Water, Internet?
People under 30 think they're the new essentials, according to Cisco's new Connected World Technology Report. The study surveyed 2,800 college students or young adults in the U.S., U.K.,
20% of people do mobile work while driving. Not while sitting in a car. While driving it.
Living here in Silicon Valley, where the driving is terrible, I'm really not at all surprised by the very depressing statistics Klint Finley reported on in ReadWrite Enterprise:
Egocasting, personal media, and cohesion in professional sports
Christine Rosen has a great term, "egocasting," to describe the enclosed, self-preferring world of RSS feeds, music, and news that we cue up for ourselves. One of the
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
A brief rant about babies and technology
Watch this delightful video of a baby being confused by a magazine. (You've probably already seen it, come to think of it.) It's been commented on, linked to,
The Apple
From a visit this evening to the Apple Store in Palo Alto. the apple at night, via flickr I've been impressed at how heartfelt the messages on these
The live version of the Marseille talk
The video for my Marseille talk went live today. I was getting kind of impatient, but I must admit, they did a nice job editing it!
Experimental test of Heidegger’s concept of ready-to-hand
Trust me, this is important. (And out just in time for me to pillage for my chapter on extended minds and bodies!) The ideas of continental philosopher Martin
“Every 2 minutes today we snap as many photos as the whole of humanity took in the 1800s”
Via Gizmodo, I came across these estimates on 1000 memories about the number of digital photos in existence: Digital cameras are now ubiquitous - it is estimated that 2.5