Here is a project to make Kinetic Sand for little kids to play with http://goo.gl/7bXmWQ I read a lot about how kids today spend way too much time online looking at screens. I think it is true; kids and adults are mesmerized by screens. We can't blame it all on the kids, or the technology … Continue reading Here is a project to make Kinetic Sand f …
Tag: cyberculture
My disorganized fragmented digital life…
Here is something on Medium that I can fully relate to https://goo.gl/QgEvTq
The Culture That Gave Birth to the Personal Computer
The Culture That Gave Birth to the Personal Computer The idea of a personal computer, one that ordinary individuals could own and operate and keep in their homes, was envisioned in 1945 by Vannevar Bush. After building his Differential Analyzer at MIT and helping to create the military-industrial-academic triangle, he wrote an essay for the July 1945 … Continue reading The Culture That Gave Birth to the Personal Computer
Google Glass….
Google Glass the pros and cons....... I'm sure this has its uses but I think I would become disoriented wearing something like that. I would be willing to give it a try though.....
G+ Communities
Something new I found on Google+ | Communities
Reading update….
Reading update : 20% through Mind Amplifier: Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter? (Kindle Single) by Rheingold, Howard on Kindle for Android!
Some links…..
Here's a couple of misc links for your browsing pleasure..... trAce Archive | Ten years of writing on, about, and via the internet, collected together in a single searchable resource..... http://www.dejavu.org/ | emulates ancient web browsers....
The Demise of Cursive….
Is Cursive Handwriting Dead? I'm well over 50 years old but I'm also an avid computer user; I do notice that I pretty much forgot how to do cursive handwriting and my block letters are not that good either. I'm sympathetic to the Author's point of view but I'm not sure there is anything we … Continue reading The Demise of Cursive….
At Home in the Digital Age
The new family time: all together in the living room; chatting, browsing, watching. Mom has her iPad, Dad with an Android and adult daughter is on her laptop. The toddler watches "Cars" or "Caillou" on the Apple TV or persuades Grandma to let him have the iPad...... All this whilst the the other TV is on … Continue reading At Home in the Digital Age
A Zen approach to information overload…
A Zen approach to information overload..... It may not be very popular to admit, but I think if we are honest most of not only love our increasingly connected life, we also hate it. We do not hate our unprecedented access to information online or the countless ways we can connect with friends, family, and … Continue reading A Zen approach to information overload…
Cybersociology Magazine
Cybersociology Magazine | Cybersociology Magazine was launched on 10 October 1997 as a forum for the cross-disciplinary academic discussion of life online. It ran for approximately two years, until 01 September 1999, and seven web based issues were published......
Together alone….
Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone? | Video on TED.com | Being together while not being together....
Zen and the Art of the Internet – Table of Contents
A Beginner's Guide to the Internet, First Edition, January 1992
Five Social Media Trends that are Reshap …
Five Social Media Trends that are Reshaping Religion | Culture | Religion Dispatches
CyberAnthropology | I’m sure this site …
CyberAnthropology | I'm sure this site has some interesting stuff on it but they make it really hard to read with the background design !
View from the Bridge: Will Email Ever Di …
View from the Bridge: Will Email Ever Die (Part 1)
Computing and society….
Category:Computing and society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Evolving web….
The evolution of the web The web today is a growing universe of interlinked web pages and web apps, teeming with videos, photos, and interactive content. What the average user doesn't see is the interplay of web technologies and browsers that makes all this possible.
Life 2.0
LIFE 2.0 [virtual world, new reality] - HOME | This is one I want to see ! Every day, across all corners of the globe, hundreds of thousands of users log onto Second Life, a virtual online world not entirely unlike our own. They enter a new reality, whose inhabitants assume alternate personas in the … Continue reading Life 2.0
Welcome to the age of the splinternet – …
Welcome to the age of the splinternet - tech - 20 July 2011 - New Scientist | Article detailing security and other problems cause by the control of the internet by a few large ecosystems such as Google, Apple, and Amazon....