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Information Addiction by Jonah Lehrer | The Frontal CortexIt's an interesting summary of research that seeks to understand the primal human hunger for information, mostly by extending our models of addiction. (If you're interested in the subject, be sure to check out this recent paper.) Why do we constantly check our email on Sunday morning, or refresh ...
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Chimeras of experience - a conversation with Jonah Lehrer"The paradox of modern neuroscience is that the one reality you can't describe as it is presently conceived is the only reality we'll ever know, which is the subjective first person view of things. Even if you can find the circuit of cells that gives rise to that, and you can construct a good ...
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Am I too pessimistic for my age?--A 15 yr old wants to knowAmong other things, I talk about social technology on this blog. I have long been curious about the multiple uses of Q&A social media. These services have grown dramatically in recent years. The ability to get an expert opinion for free is tempting. But you can even pay to get answers on some ...
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Connectivity and Status Anxiety : The Frontal CortexVirginia Heffernan, writing in the Times magazine, takes Bruce Sterling's SXSW talk about connectivity and poverty mainstream: Bruce Sterling, the cyberpunk writer, proposed at the South by Southwest tech conference in Austin that the clearest symbol of poverty is dependence on ...
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Virtual Life and Art on the WebHere are some stunning highlights from the New York Times Magazine article, "Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar" by Sara Corbett: His use of voluptuous colors, unbalanced composition and busy, layered images suggests both the bursting, overcapitalized nature of information technology today as ...
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Love and Friendship in the Age of FacebookOn the surface, Facebook is a narcissistic distraction from daily life. It provides a cross between the mindless absorption of the TV set and the obsessive self-involvement of the bathroom mirror. It also provides a voyeur with enough material to last a lifetime. The minutia of status updates, ...
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THE AGE OF COMMODIFIED INTELLIGENCE | More Intelligent LifeThe commute is just long enough to be useful. Over the speakers comes the reflective voice of Harold Bloom, telling the businessman as he sits in traffic about the “The Art of Reading a Poem". Across town on the subway, a student spends the first day of spring break on a visit to the Guggenheim. ...
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Facebook and the Social Dynamics of PrivacyThis Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the law and policy of privacy on social network sites, using Facebook as its principal example. It explains how Facebook users socialize on the site, why they misunderstand the risks involved, and how their privacy suffers as a result. ...
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Briarpatch Magazine · Union Organizing 2.0: Labour enters the Facebook matrix“The Internet now is what TV was 20 years ago,” says Mike Thomas, Recreation Committee Chair of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 424. “I don’t go home and sit down and watch four hours of television. I’ll go home and spend four hours catching up on messages, chatting ...
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David Baldacci will ruin you -- chicagotribune.comYoung people are constantly being warned that the information they include in their Facebook profiles could eventually come back to haunt them. Photographs of bacchanalian escapades, catastrophic sartorial decisions or intimate moments with toothless, tattooed recidivists are images that could ...
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