More on the Pros and Cons of Social Networking
Dan wrote a while ago about some of the pitfalls of social networking. Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics fame is apparently curious about the debate as well, and polled several researchers in this area...
View ArticleAugmented Reality: A Preflection
A Story While I usually take the bus to work in the morning so I can get in some reading, on my way home I usually end up taking the Metro and making the 20-minute hike up Mt. Saint Alban to our...
View ArticleMapping Our Memories
We’ve discussed augmented reality a little bit before, but this week’s New York Times Magazine featured an article that got me thinking about a similar concept: human augmentation, which I suppose can...
View ArticleThe Pace of Human Progress
Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity Man… that would be a great name for a band, wouldn’t it? Alas, Mr. Kurzweil – to my knowledge – is not sick nasty at the guitar. He did, however, invent “the first...
View ArticleWhen I Heard The Learn’d Software Engineer
Clive Thompson, a columnist for Wired, contributed a fascinating piece to Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. “I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You” examines the phenomenon of “ambient awareness” that...
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