At tech companies “a calm mind is the new in thing”
Computerworld recently had a piece about "Tech companies find their inner Zen:" For high-tech powerhouses like Intel and Google, where scientists and engineers are focused on goals like
JWT Intelligence thinks contemplative computing is a Thing
The boffins at J. Walter Thompson Intelligence included contemplative computing in their list of "100 Things to Watch in 2014." It appears at #25, but I'm not getting
“develop and use a new form of technology: technology that doesn’t exploit us, but that does support us”
Because I can't cover the whole world, I just found out about Offtime, a project out of Berlin to develop an app to manage calls, texts, etc. while
Common e-mail strategies “can be detrimental to other goals and the people that we work with”
Kingston Business School professor Emma Russell has been researching e-mail interruptions [pdf] and strategies (good and bad) for dealing with them. Science Daily reports that Russell conducted in-depth
“why the f*** do you care how someone else enjoys a sunset?”
I've written lots about the question of whether photography is a distraction from real life, or a way of experiencing it more deeply. It's a debate that plays
Speaking at Kagyu Thubten Chöling monastery Jan 14
Next week I'm spending a day at the Kagyu Thubten Chöling monastery in New York, and on Tuesday evening I'll be giving a talk about contemplative computing. It'll start
Hibernation, e-fasts, analog Sundays, and other forms of digital Sabbaths
Recently I've stumbled across several digital Sabbath projects. The Foresters Tech Timeout, which I wrote about recently, is one; Mother London's No Internet Week is another. An older
No Internet Week
Mother London, one of those branding / marketing / design / media consultancies that's so hip it's impossible to tell what they actually do (but they have offices
And now, pretty much the opposite of contemplative computing: PreVue, “a solution to enhancing maternal-fetal bonding”
Via fellow futurist Scott Smith, this pretty amazing concept piece: the Wearable Pregnancy Ultrasound. The description: PreVue is a solution to enhancing maternal-fetal bonding as a reassurance window.
Wearable Tech That Lets You Disconnect
New York Times blogger KJ Dell'Antonia has a piece on the Motherlode parenting blog about Memi, a new smart bracelet that aims to selectively inform users-- in this