Distraction Addiction Flickr set and slideshow
I thought it would be interesting to create a photo set that mixes images I use in my contemplative computing talks, with photos from Cambridge and my year
You damn kids get off my lawn, with your misinterpretations of neuroplasticity and media history!
I'm just getting around to Carl Wilkinson's recent Telegraph essay on writers "Shutting out a world of digital distraction." It's about how Zadie Smith, Nick Hornby and others
A forgotten piece of the book: an essay on Digital Panglosses versus Digital Cassandras
Chad Wellmon has a smart essay in The Hedgehog Review arguing that “Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart.” Our compulsive talk about information overload can isolate and abstract
Malaysian version of contemplative computing talk
The Malaysian futures journal myForesight has published a version of my LIFT 11 talk on contemplative computing. I've carved a copy of it out of the 20 MB
Stephen Poole on “the rise of popular neurobollocks”
No, it's not a new study of people listening to The Sex Pistols while in fMRI machines (though that would make an awesome research project): rather, it's Stephen
Book cover!
Here's the cover for the contemplative computing book:via flickrLittle, Brown spent a lot of time on it, and I think they've managed to communicate a lot in a
Book cover!
Here's the cover for the contemplative computing book:via flickrLittle, Brown spent a lot of time on it, and I think they've managed to communicate a lot in a
Reflections on writing
Some thoughts about book writing as a team sport.Posted with Blogsy
Version 2.0
I sent the revised manuscript to my editor on Friday. via Flickr I cut about 15%, and got it back under 100,000 words. Most of the cuts were
“ill post-modern commentary-type s*** about the nature of gadgets and relationships”
I hope what I'm doing is more profound that this*. Maybe I can crank up the Hunter S Thompson angle for the next book. *This is my all-time