Tag: technology

• The Millennials Will Be All Right

  I finally read Joel Stein’s Time magazine piece on the Millennial Generation, called “The Me Me Me Generation.” For the record, unlike some of my Millennial cohorts I hate “selfies” (the term and the thing it describes), I don’t feel entitled to a great job right out of school, and I don’t sleep next to…

  May 21, 2013

  # America, Baby Boomers, Facebook, Instagram, Joel Stein, Millennials, technology, time, Twitter

• Data Dumped: On The Freedom Of Forgetting

  Do we have the right to forget the past, and to be forgotten? That’s the key question in this article from The Guardian by Kate Connolly, which part of a larger series on internet privacy. Connolly talks with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, professor of internet governance at Oxford Internet Institute, who describes himself as the “midwife” of the idea…

  Apr 10, 2013

  # Internet, Internet Archive, Kate Connolly, Library of Congress, technology, Theodore Roosevelt, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

• Science Blows My Mind

  Like many English majors, science and mathematics were two subjects that gave me trouble throughout my primary, secondary, and college education. I think it was geometry class sophomore year of high school where I hit a wall and everything after that was a blur. Ditto with chemistry that year (what in the name of Walter…

  Aug 24, 2012

  # Back to the Future, books, Galileo, golden ratio, Leonardo Da Vinci, mathematics, physics, review, science, technology

• Pruning the Rosebushes: What Not to Share

  There’s a scene in Saving Private Ryan when Matt Damon’s Pvt. Ryan and Tom Hanks’ Capt. Miller sit and chat, waiting for the impending German offensive to hit their French town. Ryan’s three brothers had recently died and he can’t remember their faces. The Captain tells him to think of a specific context, something they’d shared…

  Jan 3, 2012

  # attention, Facebook, Instagram, life, Matt Damon, Saving Private Ryan, social media, technology, Tom Hanks, Twitter, WordPress

• Steve Jobs Lives

  This 1987 concept video from Apple predicts not only the iPad and all of its capabilities, but also Siri, the speech-activated personal assistant that will be ubiquitous technology in a few years given how Apple products usually work. (H/T to Andrew Sullivan for the video) Andy Baio finds this amazing: Based on the dates mentioned in the…

  Oct 5, 2011

  # Apple, iPhone, iPod, Macbook, Steve Jobs, technology

• Facebook vs. Wikileaks

  What’s the difference between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange? A recent Saturday Night Live skit with Bill Hader as Assange answered that question: “I give you private information on corporations for free and I’m a villain,” he says. “Mark Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man…

  Jan 3, 2011

  # Facebook, politics, privacy, social media, technology, Time magazine, Wikileaks

• iPad? I think not

  Originally published in the North Central Chronicle on April 16, 2010. With all the near-orgasmic praise Apple’s iPad has received lately, I feel like I should want to get one. But I don’t. Let’s be honest: it’s a cool toy. It does most of the things and iPod Touch or iPhone can do but on…

  Apr 16, 2010

  # Apple, design, iPad, NCC Chronicle, technology

• Net Neutrality

  This video explains Net Neutrality way better than I ever could… Created by Aaron Shekey of Apparently Nothing fame.

  Dec 15, 2007

  # Internet, Net Neutrality, technology