Entering the machine zone
Alexis Madrigal has a long, thoughtful piece in The Atlantic about something I've remarked on a couple times: the flow-like, yet addictive, experience that we often have when
29 million missed stops thanks to distraction
A new Mobile Life report by O2 and Samsung adds another data-point to digital distraction: An estimated 20 million passengers miss bus or train stops each year because
As if we needed more reminders not to drive distracted
Turns out distraction looks like a factor in that horrible train crash in Spain. The Independent reports that The driver of a train that derailed last week, killing
Memoto film on lifelogging
The Swedish startup Memoto-- you might have heard about their super-successful Kickstarter campaign last year-- recently released a video about lifelogging, which is available on Vimeo: Lifeloggers from
“that which is vital we ignore”
I ran across this lament from Thomas a Kempis in a piece by Virginia writer Liza Field: “Our thoughts are given to things which avail little, but that
“‘Information overload’ once referred to the difficulty of absorbing intelligently the data produced by others”
Gregg Zachary has a short, Proustian think-piece on the "remembrance of everything past" in IEEE Spectrum: “Information overload” once referred to the difficulty of absorbing intelligently the data
Shockingly, best practices in mobile app push strategies don’t think much about the user’s attention
Last night I talked about why I was cautiously optimistic that wearable computing wouldn't devolve into the Kurt Vonnegut short story "Harrison Bergeron." After reading this HBR piece
“we couldn’t stand in line somewhere for even five minutes without looking at our phones”
Two friends in Virginia, Amber and Amanda, spent a month earlier this year on a digital detox. Amber started thinking about going offline for a month, she writes, when I
Damon Young on cyborgs and freedom
While reading Damon Young's 2008 book Distraction-- which I highly recommend-- I came across this nice bit about technology, freedom, and responsibility. He first makes the case that
Is Google Glass an anti-distraction tool?
In the wake of the Guardian article on conscious computing I've had a couple interesting conversations with people about Google Glass and whether it-- and more generally wearables--