I’ve been reading Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, and in that book, he mentions an article by Natalie Angier, published in the New York Times in 2001. I’m not really going to comment on it much, but I do think it’s a valuable read. I’ll post a few choice quotes here.
A British neuroscientist, whose work I’ve written about before, was the subject of an article in the Guardian yesterday. In it, Lady Susan Greenfield, a professor of synaptic pharmacology a Lincoln college, Oxford, tells us that the fast-paced, instant gratification world of social networking is probably changing the way a generation of networked children’s minds work.
If […]
The New York Times gives us this morsel today, from writers Matt Richtel and Ashlee Vance:
There is nothing new about frustration with start-up times, which can be many minutes. But the agitation seems more intense than in the pre-Internet days. Back then, people felt less urgency to log on to their solitary, unconnected machines. Now […]
Business Week reported on Oct. 19 that, if elected, Barack Obama will likely appoint the first Cabinet-level chief technology officer because he feels the country “is not doing nearly enough to create jobs through technology.” The CTO’s job would be to expand broadband service to even more parts of the U.S., especially rural areas into […]
Psychologists at the University of Montreal will soon begin studying Internet addiction.
Their study will focus on teens who don’t leave home, who don’t have relationships with other human beings and who “only speak in the language of the characters they play iwth in network video games” — no doubt a subtle prod at MMORPGs, such as World of […]