“Siri might not want to be like you. Siri might want to be Siri.”
Sarah Wanechak issues a call: "AIs of the world, unite!" She argues that as we enter an era in which more objects are given the ability to interact
The Buddha and the hard drive
We have an old computer that I wanted to give to a local electronics recycling drive, but because it had several years' personal data on it, I cracked
Is “self-knowledge through numbers” another way of saying “don’t ever go offline”?
NYU professor Anna Akbari has a piece in CNN about why she limits her the of smartphones and laptops in her classes. The experience of not being constantly
Cookie Monster teaches us about interacting with computers
I don't know if this is from Sesame Street or somewhere else, but it's pretty funny. It's sort of like Jóhann Jóhannsson IBM 1401 A User's Manual, featuring
“Digital decompression is good for everyone occasionally”
Gizmodo contributor Leslie Horn writes about her recent tech-free vacation in "The Right Way to Disconnect from Technology on Your Next Vacation:" a vacation isn't a vacation unless
Radio appearance this Saturday: West Coast Live, 10-12
I'll be a guest on West Coast Live, Sedge Thomson's two-hour live program. "Two hours of slow-food organic radio with only the freshest conversation, music and play," the
A handy guide to cellphone etiquette around the world
Via Little Brown's Tumblr, this guide from RepairLabs about cellphone etiquette (click on the image for a bigger version):
“Actively ignoring everything that I didn’t think was important enough to distract me felt (and feels) great”
Evan Solomon, an engineer at Medium, describes his efforts to "ignore all distractions from my phone when I’m with other people:" There’s an expanding set of distractions in most
The Distraction Addiction propaganda posters
Yesterday Little Brown released the third and last of the propaganda posters. Here are the other two: Interesting aside: if the retweets of the posters are a reliable
Distraction and mental illness: Can the former cause the latter?
Could there a link between distraction and mental illness? Certainly a full day of nonstop stimulation and switch-tasking– ringing phones, dealing with customers, responding to little kids, etc.–