Mindfulness improves brain computer interface control
This is very interesting: a team at the University of Minnesota led by Bin He, a professor of biomedical engineering, has conducted a study measuring the ability of
“I took the iPhone into my life without ever really thinking about what it was gonna take from me”
Last year, Google Ventures design partner Jake Knapp published an essay about his “distraction-free iPhone,” which got a fair amount of attention. It started when he realized that
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
Will the Laptop Destroy the Coffee Shop?
Wednesday I was part of a forum at the Getty Center on the future of public space in the digital age. Cosponsored by Zócalo Public Square, it was
“stuck behind a slow, weaving wexter”
We’ve all see the videos of people walking into fountains, falling off piers, or hitting things while walking and texting. In case you haven’t, here’s an example: (The
Interview about contemplative computing on “The Secular Buddhist”
The latest issue of the Secular Buddhist Association's podcast features an interview with me about contemplative computing, The Distraction Addiction, and other things. I had a good time talking to SBA
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
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