A “service layer on the shared economy”
Yesterday I had a piece in Slate that talks about robot butlers, human butlers, and the work that butlers actually do— and how different it is from the
Kids can improve emotional intelligence when they spend time away from screens
This new article in Computers in Human Behavior is really interesting. A research team led by Patricia Greenfield wanted to know "whether increasing opportunities for face-to-face interaction while
“the typewriter might be an old technology but it’s still a technology”
I love this: The Times of London is piping the sound of old-fashioned typewriters into its newsroom. Nearly three decades after Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper publisher revolutionised the
“Wake-up-to-power-down is the new 9-to-5”
Derek Thompson writes on the “joys and sorrows of late-night email:" For a certain class of workers, late evening isn't time off work. It's time on email, time
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
We interact with devices more hours than we sleep
The BBC recently had a piece on smartphone stress that’s worth a read. Two things stood out in particular. One is the work of Coventry University professor Christine
If we ever do another edition of my book, I want this picture on the cover
I’ve had some great covers for my book (in several languages), but when I saw Marsel van Oosten’s fantastic photograph “Facebook Update,” I thought: That would make an awesome
“we could end up abolishing the sense of the Away:” enabling vs. distracting technology in the wild
Earth Island Journal editor Jason Mark has a piece in The Atlantic about proposals to make wifi available in national parks and other remote areas, and whether a
Christopher Alexander’s advice to young professionals: Aim for Chartres
From the preface to Richard Gabriel’s book Patterns in Software [pdf]: In my life as an architect, I find that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students
Talking about binge-watching in Le Nouvel Observateur
This weekend Le Nouvel Observateur ran a front-page article on binge watching that features a couple quotes from me. If you didn’t know better you’d think I spoke French.