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04 Dec 08
Scientists ask: Is technology rewiring our brains?
Life in the age of Google may even change how we read.
26 Nov 08
Is Urban Loneliness a Myth? -- New York Magazine
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Rather than driving people apart, large population centers pull them together, and as a rule tend to possess greater community virtues than smaller ones. This, even though cities are consistently, overwhelmingly, places where people are more likely to live on their own
22 Nov 08
Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com
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Now invention is again overthrowing the dominant media
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We are becoming people of the scree
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21 Nov 08
Web video ads are annoying and repetitive. Here's how to fix them. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
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e manufacturer of the BlackBerry is a huge online advertiser, but the company has produced only a handful of Web ads. In each one, various unobjectionable pictures and logos depicting suburban life—kids playing ball, dogs running, happy people on vacation—all meld together to form a BlackBerry phone. What the announcer says next should not really offend anyone; rendered in print, the words look innocent: "Connect to everything you love in life with BlackBerry." But trust me. Hear that phrase three or four dozen times and it begins to take on an air of menace.
Point and Click on Buildings: The World Becomes the Web | LiveScience
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That's right — the world will turn into the Web and clicking an icon on the screen of a desk-tethered PC will be passé. Clicking will become a matter of interacting with the environment, thanks to the advent of "location-based services" (LBS).
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Getting information to someone as he moves around in the physical world is not the same as the browser-driven behavior that has been the cornerstone of the wired Web. The wireless context involves getting information related to where you are and what you are trying to do," she said.
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How to Tell If You Are Addicted to Technology | LiveScience
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Communication aids such as texting and e-mail may actually hamper our abilities to have more important face-to-face conversations.
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"Technology can become more than a passing problem and more like an addiction," he told LiveScience. He listed some danger signs: "You become irritable when you can't use it. The Internet goes down and you lose your mind. You start to hide your use."
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New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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following the 2008 election to deciding where to grab a bite on the go.
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After launching, each application pulls up a map pinpointing the locations of speed traps within driving distance. An audio alert will sound as vehicles approach an area tagged as harboring a speed trap.
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The Man of the Crowd - Edgar Allan Poe
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At this particular period of the
evening I had never before been in a similar situation, and the tumultuous
sea of human heads filled me, therefore, with a delicious novelty of emotion.
I gave up, at length, all care of things within the hotel, and became absorbed
in contemplation of the scene without. -
By far the greater
number of those who went by had a satisfied, business-like demeanor, and seemed
to be thinking only of making their way through the press. Their brows were
knit, and their eyes rolled quickly; when pushed against by fellow-wayfarers
they evinced no symptom of impatience, but adjusted their clothes and hurried
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