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Asus Transformer Prime (with Dock) is Awesome, But…
My four-year-old Sony laptop is on its last legs, so I’ve been in the hunt for a new notebook computer. I travel a lot and could never understand the road warriors who lugged around huge and heavy...
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Asus Zenbook is a Beautiful Mobile Companion
In my last post, I described my search for the perfect laptop for this traveling man. If you recall, I bought an Asus Transformer Prime (ATP ) and its accompanying keyboard dock thinking that I could...
View ArticleIs Technology the New Opiate of the Masses?
Karl Marx famously called religion the “opiate of the masses.” Well, to paraphrase Reggie Hammond, Eddie Murphy’s character in the film 48 Hours, “There’s a new opiate in town and its name is...
View ArticlePsychology of Technology: Can You Disconnect from the ‘Matrix’?
Yes, you heard me right. I asked whether you are capable of disconnecting…from your smartphone, PC, laptop, tablet, or mp3 player! I realize that is a shocking and perhaps heretical suggestion in a...
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High-tech Miracle: From Brick to Phone!
I’ve been flashing ROMs and otherwise tweaking my mobile phones for several years now. One thing I’ve learned is that I never seem to learn. In my pursuit of device perfection, I’m always pushing the...
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A Tragic Death (of a BT Headset) and a Marvelous Discovery
I was out for a bike ride a few weeks ago in beautiful Marin County, north of San Francisco. As usual, I was wearing my bluetooth headset, a Jabra BT530, so if I got a call, I wouldn’t have to fumble...
View ArticlePsychology of Technology: The Growing (and Dangerous) Gap Between Information...
The Internet is a truly remarkable advancement in our ability to access information. Just about anything we could possibly want to know is now just a few keystrokes away. But , as with most...
View ArticleChildren’s Immersion in (Mobile) Technology is “Shocking”
What do smoke signals, drums, books, the telegraph, telephone, fax, mobile phones, and the Internet have in common? They have incrementally enabled us to connect with more people and access more...
View ArticleIs Your Family’s Relationship with Technology Healthy?
How involved in technology your children are is only half of the equation in its impact on them. The other half, of course, is the degree to which you are savvy in both your understanding and use of...
View ArticleMama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be…Multitaskers
Like many digital natives, your children are probably on their way to becoming lifelong multitaskers (or so you think). As the research indicates, children these days spend about seven-and-a-half hours...
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Psychology of Technology: Is Technology Raising a Generation of Bad Decision...
Decision making is another aspect of children’s thinking that seems to be suffering as a result of the latest technology. This poor decision making is illustrated by events over the last few years...
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Is Technology Making Your Children Mindless Instead of Mindful?
I’m no Zen master and I don’t expect you to teach your children to meditate all day. At the same time, the notion of mindfulness has much broader meaning than as an Eastern philosophy or for...
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Will There be a Backlash Against Technology?
In a past post, I described my belief in the Law of Unintended Consequences, which suggests that we can’t predict how innovations will impact us individually or collectively. This law couldn’t be more...
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Can Technology Save Itself from Itself?
With the 20th anniversary of the birth of Internet just passed, I thought it a good time to step back and reflect on the role of technology in our present lives and the role it may play in the future....
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What is the Biggest Danger of Technology?
There are a lot of “techno-evangelists” out there spreading the gospel of technology as the cure for all of our ills. For this group, technology can do no wrong. At the same time, there are plenty of...
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A Must-See Video of the Impact of Technology on Our Lives
In my recent post, I argue that opportunity costs (time spent doing one thing is time not spent doing other things) may be the greatest threat from technology. A friend just sent me this video titled...
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Tech Savvy Doesn’t Mean Tech Skilled
Parents getting their children involved in technology as early as possible has become a societal imperative and a source of great pressure on parents these days. The belief is that if children don’t...
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The Digital World is Full of Possibility and Worry
I come to the discussion of the impact of technology on our lives from two perspectives. I hold a Ph.D. in psychology, am the author of Raising Generation Tech: Prepare Your Children for Media-Fueled...
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Is Google Killing Wonder?
“I wonder.” How often you have made this simple statement? I’m going to guess quite frequently. How often have you heard it from others? I’ll bet even more often. Anytime an interesting question is...
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Is Coding Camp a Good Thing? Answer: Not to Me
One of the booming trends in the ‘youth-achievement-industrial complex’ is computer coding camps (and after-school coding programs). Here is an article in which I was interviewed that discusses this...
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