February 2012
14 posts
“Facebook use correspond to the “Core Flow State”, a fairly new...”
– Facebook Use Affects Mood Differently To Stress And Relaxation
“This scenario of individual and household profiling and media customization is...”
– A Guide to the Digital Advertising Industry That’s Watching Your Every Click - Joseph Turow - Technology - The Atlantic
“Transcending its original playful identity, it [the Internet] is no longer a...”
– The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com
“We have already been transformed via harnessing beyond what we once were. We’re...”
– Humans, Version 3.0 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
“Consider the possibility that cognitive enhancements may go hand in hand with...”
– Why Cognitive Enhancement Is in Your Future (and Your Past) - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic
“Using technology to enhance our brains sounds terrifying, but using tools to...”
– Why Cognitive Enhancement Is in Your Future (and Your Past) - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic
“A European octogenarian is the recipient of the first-ever 3-D printed jawbone,...”
– 83-Year-Old Woman Gets the World’s First 3-D Printed Jaw Transplant | Popular Science
“Results of a new study confirm what you’ve claimed for years: checking...”
– Social Media More Addictive Than Booze and Cigs : Discovery News
“The existence of hyperlinks is enough to convince even the most stubborn...”
– The Difference Between Online Knowledge and Truly Open Knowledge - C.W. Anderson - Technology - The Atlantic
“There is a hole in my heart dug deep by advertising and envy and a desire to see...”
– Need-To-Know: Generation Flux, Start-Up of You, Technology Heartbreak :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
“When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your...”
– Need-To-Know: Generation Flux, Start-Up of You, Technology Heartbreak :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
“Almost half of all children under the age of 12 would be sad without access to...”
– Young children would be ‘sad’ without internet access, study reveals | Mail Online
“Scientists have picked up fragments of people’s thoughts by decoding the...”
– Mind-reading program translates brain activity into words | Science | The Guardian
January 2012
30 posts
““We’re all cyborgs now,” the anthropologist Amber Case said in a TED talk in...”
– The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com
“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and...”
– Rumi (via human-voices)
“Someday, probably sooner than we think, much of our lives will be recorded by...”
– So What Do We Do With All This Data? | Innovations
“Technology is a neutral tool that you should use when you have a plan, when you...”
– Noam Chomsky explains why we need to decide what education is (Wired UK)
“Even an extreme disruption of international connectivity would not seriously...”
– Could the Internet Ever Be Destroyed? | Is the Internet Invincible? | How to Kill the Internet | LifesLittleMysteries.com
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Nature....”
– The Technium: Undetectable Technology
“Many prominent linguists, including MIT’s Noam Chomsky, have argued that...”
– Cognitive scientists develop new take on old problem: why human language has so many words with multiple meanings
“Although we’re more likely to share information from our close friends, we still...”
– Online echo chambers: A study of 250 million Facebook users reveals the Web isn’t as polarized as we thought. - Slate Magazine
“A Buddhist scholar named Nogaguna, who lived about A.D. 200, invented a whole...”
– Crashingly Beautiful: where is the universe?
“The sum of our memory is an almost infinitely complex and chaotic web of...”
– How to improve long-term memory | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
“Eye movements are so closely tied to the way we think and act that they can even...”
– Annie Murphy Paul: What Your Eyes Say About How You Think And Learn | TIME Ideas | TIME.com
“Your perceptions of others – even ones that are made up – says a lot about what...”
– Imagine that: How you envision others says a lot about you in real life
“Knowmads…
1. Are not restricted to a specific age.
2. Build their personal...”
– Nine key characteristics of knowmads in Society 3.0 | Education Futures
“Thoughts are bigger than the things that deliver them. Our contraptions may...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“The digital world is new, and the real gains and losses of the Internet era are...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“cognition is not a little processing program that takes place inside your head,...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“All three kinds appear among the new books about the Internet: call them the...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“The smartest person in the room is no longer a person but the room...”
– What the Internet Means for How We Think About the World - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
“We are in a new age of “networked knowledge,” meaning that knowledge...”
– What the Internet Means for How We Think About the World - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
“technology is an enabler of rights, not a right itself. There is a high bar for...”
– Internet Access Is Not a Human Right - NYTimes.com
“Facts are so last century. In the Internet-dominated world, networked facts have...”
– Networked facts are the new black : RSA blogs
“Why are some languages quite regular and others not? The historical linguist...”
– Why are some languages more regular than others?
“Psychologists from Washington University used brain scans to see what happens...”
– Humans have the need to read | Gail Rebuck | Comment is free | The Guardian
“We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less...”
– The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via wildcat2030)
December 2011
20 posts
“Natural selection is a way of sorting among a range of genetic alternatives, and...”
– Infinite Stupidity | Conversation | Edge
“The concept has been around for years, sometimes called the Internet of Things...”
– The Internet Gets Physical - NYTimes.com
“In a way, new technologies have made us all like Baudelaire. We are intoxicated...”
– The Smart Set: Privacy Policy - October 13, 2011 (via wildcat2030)
“Our consciousness is so subjective that our own experience of sentience is all...”
– Untangling the web: attention | Technology | The Observer
“If Americans and the British are two peoples divided by a common language, then...”
– Power of Babel: Why one language isn’t enough - life - 14 December 2011 - New Scientist