The neurophysiology of attention
Interesting interview from Wired, with Maggie Jackson, the author of “Distracted.” Ironically I started reading “Distracted” but put it to one side while I immersed myself in some of other books....
View ArticleBlogging by email
In the hunt for quicker and easier ways to maintain this blog, I’m going to be experimenting with posting by email. This is just a test to see if I have the settings right. Related posts: My top five...
View Article“Sick” Microsoft ad promotes porn
If I hadn’t seen this Microsoft ad on PC Magazine’s website I would have assumed it was a spoof. How could any respectable company produce such an obnoxious advertisement? Related posts: New game...
View ArticleThe breathing earth
I love this video showing the cycle of photosynthesis in the oceans and on land over a three year period. It’s like watching a child breathing. This is another video from NASA’s SeaWiFS satellite....
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Readability: a simple tool for simplifying the web
Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading. It’s a simple bookmark that you put on your browser toolbar and then click...
View ArticleThe computer that wins at Jeopardy
An interesting thing is happening in the field of artificial intelligence: a computer that can beat humans in a natural-language general knowledge quiz: ‘Toured the Burj in this U.A.E. city. They say...
View ArticleRobert Wright on the emerging planetary consciousness
Interesting and provocative stuff from writer (and meditator) Robert Wright: This autumn will see the publication of a book that promises to help us out here: “What Technology Wants,” by Kevin Kelly, a...
View ArticleCreativity: how it works and why it’s declining
It’s ironic that just as science is beginning to discover how creativity works, it is (in the US at least) in the midst of a marked decline. A Newsweek article reports that while IQ has been steadily...
View ArticleSwype
This is pretty exciting, at least for a techno-fetishist like me: Swype Beta on Nexus One from bcpk on Vimeo. Wonder how long it’ll take to appear on the iPhone, if it ever does. Related posts: Vote...
View ArticleWelcome to the future
I showed this video to rapturous applause in my final class at Upward Bound. The speaker is Pranav Mistry, a young Indian technologist at MIT. He outlines the development of his Sixth Sense system of...
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