Showing posts with label Telegraph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Telegraph. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Lab Rats


Duh. Didn't See It Comin':



Increasing levels of information overload from computer and smart phone screens cause a “bottleneck” in the brain and prevent any deep thought, according to Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review.

His comments add to the weight of evidence that our addiction to technology and the snippets of information it provides is damaging our ability to apply our power of thought in a meaningful way.

Friday, May 14, 2010

You Lookin' At Me?


No Place Safe:

There’s an echo of Travis Bickle, the protagonist of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, in each of the kindergarten killers. These are middle-aged men, left on the fringes of society, whose alienation and loneliness manifests itself in extreme violence.