Tag Archives: technology

Twitter has destroyed my writing… (Sommer Browning)

Posted on 5/4/2010 by chris

“Twitter has destroyed my writing, but not as much as interacting with people has. Interacting with people has destroyed my writing, but not as much as being in love has. Being in love has really destroyed my writing, but not … Continue reading →

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Concentration and Imagination in the Digital Age

Posted on 3/29/2010 by chris

The Spring 2010 issue of The American Scholar has a fascinating pair of articles that each, in their own way, address different aspects of the same fundamental questions that continue to haunt me: the effects of technological change on attention … Continue reading →

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How Grandma Sees the Remote

Posted on 2/16/2008 by chris

You’ll have to jump to the original blog entry to see the details…

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Ted Rives, Emperor of the Internet

Posted on 1/27/2007 by chris

Part slam poetry performance, part internet punditry, Ted Rives TED Talks feature (scroll to Dec. 16, 2006) is hard to describe, but as insightful as many conventional presentations fifteen times its short 4 minutes…

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How to Speak a Book

Posted on 1/12/2007 by chris

Richard Powers on why he never touches a keyboard unless he has to, speech recognition, and the power and utility of the human voice.

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