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  • Technology is NOT ‘Neutral’

    Technology is NOT ‘Neutral’0

    Very often, when I try to engage people on the subject of technology and its effects on us, I get handed a variation of the following line: “Technology itself is neutral. It’s just a matter of how you use it.” This response is usually intended to stop all further conversation about the possible philosophical and

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  • Technology Invades Our Minds

    Technology Invades Our Minds0

    • September 24, 2015

    It is such an ever-present part of our modern existence that we often overlook how technology actually changes us, for better or worse. Now, before we address the problems of technology, let us first make it clear that recognizing negative impacts of technology doesn’t automatically make one a luddite. You are, after all, reading this

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  • Technology Addiction and the Gollumizing of Our Culture

    Technology Addiction and the Gollumizing of Our Culture0

    Is technology liberating? Does science-driven “progress” make us happier? Not so, says social psychologist, Adam Alter, in his new book, Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. “In the past, we thought of addiction as mostly related to chemical substances: heroin, cocaine, nicotine,” says Dr. Alter, an associate professor

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  • Techniques of 19th-century fake news reporter teach us why we are suckers for it

    Techniques of 19th-century fake news reporter teach us why we are suckers for it0

    Donald Trump appears to have a straightforward definition of fake news: Stories that are critical of him or his presidency are “fake,” while those that praise him are “real.” On the surface, the logic doesn’t hold up. But at the same time, the way Trump thinks about fake news points to a key reason why

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  • Tech Steamrolls the Arts

    Tech Steamrolls the Arts0

    The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech, by William Deresiewicz (Henry Holt; 368 pp., $27.99). Members of a book club at my highly selective undergraduate business school were stung by William Deresiewicz’s portrait of careerist, grade-grubbing college students in his scathing 2015 book, Excellent

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  • Tech Execs Limit Their Kids’ Screen Time

    Tech Execs Limit Their Kids’ Screen Time0

    In September 2014, the New York Times published an article whose headline came as a shock to many: “Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent.” The article’s author, Nick Bilton, reported that he was surprised when Jobs told him back in 2010 that “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.” But as it

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