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Curated News - Saving information on a computer boosts human memory resources for new information | KurzweilAI
December 11, 2014
“a personal memory is not a blueprint but rather a dynamic reconstruction of what happened when and where. Memories change with time.”
via Saving information on a computer boosts human memory resources for new information | KurzweilAI
Curated News - Saving information on a computer boosts human memory resources for new information | KurzweilAI
December 11, 2014
“As technology develops, computers and smart phones are making it easier and easier to save information, which seems to have important consequences for the ways in which our memory functions,” says Storm. “By treating computers and other digital devices as extensions of memory, people may be protecting themselves from the costs of forgetting while taking advantage of the benefits.”
via Saving information on a computer boosts human memory resources for new information | KurzweilAI
Curated News - Can a Computer Replace Your Doctor?
September 22, 2014
“And some studies show that half the people who buy portable fitness trackers stop using them in a matter of months. That is probably because most people who wear them are already health-conscious and there may be little long-term value once they take note of their activity patterns, Mr. Van Kuiken suggested.”
Curated News - Sam Harris on Spirituality without Religion, Happiness, and How to Cultivate the Art of Presence
September 21, 2014
“How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives.”
via Sam Harris on Spirituality without Religion, Happiness, and How to Cultivate the Art of Presence
Curated News - Sam Harris on Spirituality without Religion, Happiness, and How to Cultivate the Art of Presence
September 21, 2014
“Each of us is looking for a path back to the present: We are trying to find good enough reasons to be satisfied now.”
via Sam Harris on Spirituality without Religion, Happiness, and How to Cultivate the Art of Presence
Curated News - i think, therefore i (instagr)am. cyberpunk novelist j.g. ballard, predicted social media in i-D 27 years ago
September 21, 2014
“social media remains in its infancy and the long-term effects of documenting our lives are yet to be seen”
Curated News - Famous Writers on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary
September 17, 2014
“This, perhaps, is the greatest gift of the diary — its capacity to stand as a living monument to our own fluidity, a reminder that our present selves are chronically unreliable predictors of our future values and that we change unrecognizably over the course of our lives.”
via Famous Writers on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary
Curated News - The Internet’s Original Sin - The Atlantic
September 16, 2014
“But 20 years in to the ad-supported web, we can see that our current model is bad, broken, and corrosive. It’s time to start paying for privacy, to support services we love, and to abandon those that are free, but sell us—the users and our attention—as the product.”
Curated News - Where Tech Is Taking Us: A Conversation With Intel’s Genevieve Bell
August 07, 2014
“What else is changing is how stories are told, and who gets to tell them. We tell stories differently too — there have been all kinds of experiments with listservs, blogs, Facebook updates, Twitter, Instagram. The professional storytellers are changing too — television is something that comes out six or eight episodes at a time and gets binge watched over a weekend. That changes how you tell the story.”
via Where Tech Is Taking Us: A Conversation With Intel’s Genevieve Bell