Podcast #20: Huei Peng and Driverless Cars

A tour of autonomous vehicle testing track Mcity with director Huei Peng answers many questions, and raises others.

By Mo Lotman | September 26, 2018 | Automation, Environment, Government, Podcasts, Privacy, Safety, Society, Transportation | Ann Arbor, Automation, Autonomous Vehicles, Chauffeur, Commerce, Convenience, Driverless Cars, Driving, Efficiency, Engineering, Environment, Ford, GM, Greg McGuire, Higher Education, Lidar, Mcity, Mileage, Research, surveillance, Toyota, Uber, University of Michigan

Podcast #19: Tim Kasser Talks Materialism

Tim Kasser has spent over two decades studying the relationship between materialism and well-being. As it turns out, they don’t always go together.

By Mo Lotman | August 15, 2018 | Advertising, Cognition, Community, Environment, Media, Podcasts, Psychology, Relationships, Society, Well-Being | Advertising, Behavior, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Education, Extrinsic Values, Hedonism, Intrinsic Values, Mastery, Materialism, Media, Spirituality, The Values Circumplex, Values, Well-Being

Our First Print Issue

The Technoskeptic arrives in print!

By Mo Lotman | July 18, 2018 | Culture, Journalism, Media, Publishing, Society | Airbnb, Journalism, Kentaro Toyama, Magazines, Print Media, Sven Birkerts

Go Fourth

A brief note on America’s 242nd birthday.

By Mo Lotman | July 4, 2018 | Community, Culture, Government, Society | Civic Engagement, Fourth of July, Liberty, Social Change, Social Justice

A Call for Ideas

Publisher Mo Lotman looks for ideas and suggestions as he embarks on a nationwide trip this summer.

By Mo Lotman | June 20, 2018 | Community, Culture, Society | Connection, Ideas, Silicon Valley, travel

Podcast #18: Catherine Steiner-Adair on Tech and Child Development

Catherine Steiner-Adair is a clinical psychologist whose empathic 2013 book The Big Disconnect warned us about the impacts of digital tech on child development and family relationships. She’s been on a non-stop speaking tour ever since.

By Mo Lotman | May 16, 2018 | Cognition, Education, Family, Health, Identity, Podcasts, Psychology, Relationships, Society, Well-Being | Anxiety, Apps, Attachment, Bonding, Boredom, Childhood Development, Creativity, Cyberbullying, Depression, Disconnection, Education, Exercise, Families, Gaming, Impulse Control, Laptops, Learning, Motor Skills, Obesity, Overstimulation, Parents, Permanence, Play, Porn, Quiet, Schools, Sexting, Shaming, smart phones, Social Media, Suicide, Tablets

The Technoskeptic Ad Translator

Check out The Technoskeptic’s take on some particularly lampoonable technology ads.

By Mo Lotman | April 18, 2018 | Advertising, Environment, Health | Amazon, E-books, Health Care, Internet of Things, Kindle, Nuclear Power, Samsung, Smart Refrigerator

A Message From the Publisher

It’s our 2nd birthday! Publisher Mo Lotman shares a few thoughts about where we’ve come and where The Technoskeptic is going.

By Mo Lotman | February 28, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Community, Economics, Ethics, Government, Media, Philosophy, Privacy, Relationships, Society, Well-Being | Addiction, Amazon, Anxiety, Apple, Attention, Business, Center for Humane Technology, Community, Depression, Disconnection, Economics, Ethics, Facebook, Farhad Manjoo, Google, Microsoft, Opioids, Reality, Roger McNamee, smart phones, Specialization, Suicide, Tristan Harris

Podcast #16: Tomaso Poggio on the State of AI

After a long so-called winter, artificial intelligence has recently made amazing gains. Tomaso Poggio, Director of MIT’s Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, explains why this success is still a long way from the dystopian fears of robot overlords, but that the threat to jobs is real.

By Mo Lotman | February 14, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Cognition, Employment, Ethics, Podcasts, Society | Academia, AI, AI Winter, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Autonomous Vehicles, Back Propagation, Center for Brains Minds & Machines, China, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, Deep Learning, Doctors, Economy, Facial Recognition, Google, Job Loss, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Meaning, Microsoft, MIT, Mobileye, National Science Foundation, Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, Purpose, self-driving cars, surveillance, Truck Drivers

Podcast #15: David Greenfield on Internet Addiction

Psychiatrist, professor, and author David Greenfield, founder of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction, was one of the first medical professionals to recognize and study the addictive qualities of the Internet. He explains what we know, what it means, and what can be done.

By Mo Lotman | January 17, 2018 | Cognition, Family, Health, Neurology, Podcasts, Psychology, Society, Well-Being | Addiction, Alienation, Behavior, Boot Camps, Boredom, China, Community, Creativity, Detox, Distracted Driving, Dopamine, DSM, Facebook, Food, Gambling, Gaming, Health Care, Heroin, Humanity, Impulse Control, Inequality, Internet, Medicine, Public Space, Self-Medication, Sex, smart phones, Social Disconnection, Social Media, Teens, Unhappiness, Variable Ratio Reinforcement Schedule, Variable Reward, Video Games

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