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Today’s relentless email flood could steer you away fr... and even out of work entirely if you don’t learn defen... That sounds obvious until you hear that a British study ... all information workers respond to an e-mail within 60 m... That’s no

Last week I realised the internet wants to kill me. I wa... script in a small room with nothing but a laptop for com... conditions for quiet contemplation – but thanks to the... connection, I may as well have been sharing the space wi... marching ba

My attention span was never great, but modern technology... halved it again, and again and again, down to an atomic ... there's nothing discernible left. Back in that room, bom... and emails, repeatedly tapping search terms into Google ... good reason

Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and w... cast aside half of the English canon.
Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our ...
The study will examine the psychological impact of being ...

Calculate the Stardate of the Star Trek Future!

One of Guinness World Records’ more unusual awards was... National Maritime Museum yesterday. After a 100-day tria... known as Clock B – which had been sealed in a clear pl... prevent tampering – was officially declared, by Guinne...
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Van den Hoven believes we need to delete more. “A lot ... think forgetting is a bad thing, that it’s a bug of hu... not. Forgetting is a side-product of a successful memory.”
And that, she says, is one of the project’s aims. “W ...

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of...
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... That is, some of us do. Others use data.

However grumpy when they wake up, and whether they stumb...
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Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :)
... and expands on what is known about how mood fluctuates.

A businessman laments that he no longer has colleagues a... doesn’t stop by to talk; he doesn’t call. He says th... want to interrupt them. He says they’re “too busy on... But then he pauses and corrects himself. “I’m not te...
A 16-year-o

Research shows that our intuition is wrong. We can focus... that we can’t may not be a phantom. Paying attention r... ability but desire. Technology may snuff out our desire ...

If the data is any indication, most of us use our phones... think: Participants estimated an average of 37 uses thro... (anything that turns on the screen, from hitting snooze ...
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If you are awake for 16 hours, turning o

E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such ... improve, but research suggests that reading on paper sti... advantages

Carolyn Strauss and Julian Bleecker's slowMail is an ema... deliberately slows down the pace of electronic correspon... experiences of reflection and mindful interaction that a...
Contrary to traditional email, which is expected to be d ...
slowMail wa

In an era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter,... required to do several things at once. But this constant... taking its toll. Here neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin ex... addiction to technology is making us less efficient

A TimeMap is an interactive graphic showing change over ... is linked to descriptions of the change being shown.
The TimeMap of World History covers human history at dif ...
We also have a growing range of Topic TimeMaps which tak ...

Tele-gardening
By Regine
on October 12, 2006 4:50 PM
Categories:
... ill wither to notify you that you're forgetting him/her.

Talking about slowing the web:
Louise Klinker's SLOWEB project that responds to peoples ...
What does it mean when you have to queue to enter a webs ...
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... t develop gradually to represent pending correspondence.

Real snail email
By Regine
on October 11, 2006 6:14 PM
Categories:
... e artists will give a talk tonight 7PM at [ s p a c e ].

STOPPED CLOCK ILLUSION

When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want to show you where it might do the opposite.

Where does technology exploit our minds’ weaknesses?

I learned to think this way when I was a ...

According to Tolkien, a eucatastrophe in a story often h... darkest moment. When all seems lost – when the enemy s... – a sudden "joyous turn" for the better can emerge.

I watched in horror a promotional video for these glasses that showed how your whole field of vision of the real world could become a screen on which reminder messages spring up. The video portrayed the lifestyle of a hip female Brooklynite...

Slow Dance makes things move in ways you never thought possible. For all those who love mystery, beauty, and wonder.