More on Your Mind
Since I began to look around on this subject, rather than just fret over it, I keep finding other people to whom it is important.
“As the internet becomes our universal medium - what the director of the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future terms “a comprehensive tool that Americans are using to touch the world” […]
As An Addendum
To that last blog - one of the other ways I notice I am changing is that I am more inclined to ask what use I am to other people, situations, dialogues. Much of my work life has involved appearing to be an authority and that’s how my education taught me to behave. It’s a […]
More on memories, Wordprocessors, Computers
On blogcritics a year or so back I posted a blog on the Internet, memory and the shape of our minds. I’ve written about it here and here too. It’s been something I’ve wanted to understand since writing an article nearly two years ago now on a similar subject. I am not a fan of […]
We Were Talking About Why
Vern Lun of TheGoodBlogs and I occasionally exchange views on the long tail and our frustration with not figuring out where the really useful bits of Web 2.0 lie. Vern’s project is fabulous - he’s promoted blog posts more than 110 million times in a little over a year but like me feels some days […]
Depo Post
Depo are my virtual world developer and I recently agreed to do some work with them to build their new media practice. They’ve done a fabulous job with the gallery and they are doing some good work creating virtual spaces for folks like BDO Stoy hayward. I have some ideas about how that environment can […]
The Big Computer
I was reading Nick Carr being interviewed in this month’s WIRED magazine complaining about the way so much information is coming within the orbit of a very small number of companies - Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook.
I’ve become a big user of Google’s centralised services - I use Google docs and Gmail of course […]
If People Are Getting Smarter Then How Come….
Reading the Economist’s Intelligent Life magazine I came across the Flynn Effect, proof of a kind that people are getting smarter from one generation to the next. Interesting magazine Intelligent Life. My impression is it has become more intelligent and less possessed by luxury as its core lifestyle theme.
The fascination of the Flynn Effect is […]