cost of privacy inversion point
sam lessin via www.buzzmachine.com/2010/08/05/the-price-of-privacy/my
Interesting to compare Linda Stone’s 20yr cycle date of 2005.
August 24, 2010
August 14, 2010
world population infographic
[via http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2010/08/world_populatio.html?utm_source=fee...:+InfectiousGreed+(Paul+Kedrosky's+Infectious+Greed)]
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May 29, 2010
NYT on finding ourself in the cloud
Interesting bit from an article in the New York Times about self-tracking – this bit rang a bell in my head around humanity / culture driving technology creation to fulfil its desires.
NYT Article
One of the reasons that self-tracking is spreading widely beyond the technical culture that gave birth to it is that we all have at least an inkling of what’s going on out there in the cloud. Our search history, friend networks and status updates allow us to be analyzed by machines in ways we can’t always anticipate or control. It’s natural that we would want to reclaim some of this power: to look outward to the cloud, as well as inward toward the psyche, in our quest to figure ourselves out.
March 15, 2010
Network learning – Social Media helps us learn
Some interesting thoughts in an article titled “Social Media’s Effect on Learning” over on a WSJ Blog.
Some snippets:
“Bilingual people aren’t cognitively smarter, but they are more cognitively flexible,”
“Practice at constant switching improves an aspect of their cognitive abilities.”
“This is much like what people do when they’re updating their Twitter status, instant-messaging friends, or answering text messages and emails while they’re doing something else. Dr. Kuhl said this multitasking, where people are stimulating new patterns of sequential processing, could then reap the same benefits as bilingualism.”
“If not .. then networking online is at least acting as a brain innovator.., promoting new paths of discovery and interactivity in the brain.”
