Escaping Screens: A Tech-Free Travel Quest, Part II
A stranded American tourist shares the story of a six-month screen-free quest through India and Nepal just as the coronavirus explodes. Part II.
Category: Cognition
Escaping Screens: A Tech-Free Travel Quest, Part I
An American tourist stranded in India shares his story: six months traveling without a screen, only to pick one up again just in time for the global meltdown.
Now’s the Time to Go Screen-Free
Tired of Zoom calls and virtual meet-ups? Just turn everything off.
The Mind-Bending World of Neurotechnologies
With little fanfare, technologies that manipulate brain activity (both external and implanted) pose dangers to health, identity, and society, even as they achieve medical successes.
Book Review: Darkness By Design
Walter Mattli reveals the opaque world of high-speed trading, and its danger to finance and the regulatory power of governments.
Book Review: Re-Engineering Humanity
Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger warn that real freedom of will and human agency will require the ability to be “off.”
Tell Alexa You’re Busy Driving
The Amazon Echo Auto promises only further distraction in a place where distraction is deadly: behind the wheel.
Print Preview: Issue #4 | Fall 2019
Our fourth print issue—covering issues of identity, censorship, Internet infrastructure and more—is about to ship nationally.
The Transformative Power of Print
College students given an assignment of reading a print book learn about their own habits and the power of concentration.
Podcast #27: Robert Lustig on Biochemistry and Health
Author and endocrinologist Robert Lustig explains the neurochemical difference between happiness and pleasure and how it’s been exploited to make so many of us fat, addicted, and depressed. Then, he reminds us how to reclaim our health.