Wax Tablets and information warfare
“… Tom Standage has redeemed us. In his well-written and entertaining book, Writing on the Wall: Social Media — The First 2,000 Years, he argues that email, blogs, Twitter and Facebook are simply the...
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Before I left on the trip north, I rechecked something — based on my wife’s question as to why what I had mentioned wasn’t on the news. I had mentioned the breaking story on the evening of the 30th...
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What can we do? Music audio: Dhafer Youssef & Hüsnü Şenlendirici ‘dance of the invisible dervishes’ 19.07.2012 Istanbul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8n24hAhmEM (36:50) “What can we do?”...
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A Sense of Outrage Image source: http://www.whosefaultyvision.com/photoblog/2012/10/24/veiled-face-london/ “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” ― Arthur Conan...
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human interaction In the age of the internet and smartphones, there is no denying that technology continuously shapes our everyday lives…. featured graphic:...
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death of conversation ”… It seems that the feeling of loneliness is a real epidemic of our society. But why do we feel this way while numerous ways of communication with other human beings are...
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information Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It’s Too Much Like TV We need more text and fewer videos and memes in the age of Trump. November 29, 2016 music:...
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somebody holds the key “Not all that long ago I touted a warning that I felt was about to plague social media in a way the social media complex itself never bargained for. That warning? When...
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going deep The aforementioned book “Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” by Cal Newport was correctly assumed to be an update in a modernized high-tech world (maybe I should call...
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