Number of words: 199 Mass-communications technology has proliferated so rapidly that we haven’t had a chance to develop healthy protocols about when and how to use it. Now’s the time to change that To develop sustainable and rewarding relationships, it is always best to communicate in the most brain-friendly ways possible. Human contact fosters warmth … Read more
Number of words: 656 Young human brains are so uniquely adaptable that they may easily get bent out of shape by frenetic virtual stimulation: ‘What human beings do better than any other species is to learn. But it also means that whatever happens in the environment will leave its mark on your brain, she argues. … Read more
Number of words: 268 This is exacerbated by the fact that our primitive brains’ ever rotten sense of geography: if we see footage of a massacre somewhere far off, our minds don’t instructively think, that was thousands of miles away. They believe that it must have been close at hand, within the scope of a … Read more
Number of words: 156 Ultimately I had to start becoming somewhat militant, That’s why I no longer own a mobile phone. I did for a while It seemed a good idea, but then my work colleagues got hold of the number. The little convenience-enhancer turned into a conduit for constant demands. It’s the telecoms equivalent … Read more
Number of words: 370 The key to this type of technology collaboration lies with human values and processes and not just a focus on technology. Organizations need to decide whether and how to share data, and if so, on what terms. A few principles will be foundational. The first is concrete arrangements to protect privacy. … Read more
Number of words: 267 In the early days of Microsoft’s history, developers protected their source code as a trade secret, and most tech companies and other organizations developed their code by themselves. But open source had revolutionized the creation and use of software. Increasingly software developers were publishing their code under a variety of open-source … Read more
Number of words: 310 The story begins with the extraordinary degree to which the American economy revolved around horses before the introduction of the automobile. As one historian has commented, “Every family in the United States in 1870 was directly or indirectly dependent on the horse.” Across the country, there was one horse for every … Read more
Number of words: 376 After more than fifty years of service, the fire horse had lost its job. It was a story about changing technology and its impact on work. Fire horses themselves had previously replaced men in pulling fire engines. Volunteer teams of men and boys had originally pulled these fire engines, but in … Read more
Number of words: 444 In June 2002, Steven Spielberg premiered a new movie he had directed, Minority Report, based on a famous 1956 short story by the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Set in 2054 in a crime-free Washington, DC, the film stars Tom Cruise, who plays the head of Precrime, an elite police … Read more
Number of words: 47 Einstein had said after the Second World War: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Excerpted from pages 209 to 210 of ‘Tools and Weapons’ by Brad Smith and Carol Browne
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