Disruptive Technologies Outpace Our Adaptability

As digital technologies improve exponentially, the pace of change has become too great for healthy adaptation.

By Mo Lotman | August 9, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Economics, Employment, Philosophy, Society, Well-Being | Agriculture, AI, Clay Christensen, Disruption, Employment, FailCon, Homo Sapiens, Invention, Moore's Law, Moveable Type, Pace, Retraining, Silicon Valley, Speed, The Internet, The Wheel, Wisdom

Podcast #12: Bill Powers on Tech Boundaries and Social Media

Journalist and media critic Bill Powers wrote a bestselling book about stepping away from tech; now he’s on the inside trying to make tech better.

By Mo Lotman | June 14, 2017 | Cognition, Health, Journalism, Media, Philosophy, Podcasts, Psychology, Society, Well-Being | Attention, Boundaries, Busyness, Connectedness, Digital Maximalism, Elections, Hamlet's Blackberry, Internet Sabbath, iPhone, Lab for Social Machines, Media Lab, MIT, Newspapers, Policy, Screen Sabbath, smart phones, Tech Sabbath, The Electome, The Internet, The Washington Post, Tim Berners-Lee, Twitter

Podcast #11: Narayan Liebenson on Mindfulness and Attention

Narayan Liebenson, a guiding teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, speaks to us about the benefits of mindfulness and attention. How might smart devices be impacting our ability to be present?

By Mo Lotman | April 12, 2017 | Cognition, Culture, Health, Podcasts, Psychology, Relationships, Well-Being | Addiction, Attention, Buddhism, Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, Compassion, Hungry Ghost, Insight Meditation Society, Meditation, Mindfulness, Noble Eightfold Path, Sanctuary, smart phones, Steadiness, Stillness, The Internet, Wisdom

The Retroskeptic: Back to Back to the Future

As perhaps you have heard, 2015 is a notable year for pop-culture enthusiasts: we have finally arrived at the future [...]

By Mo Lotman | August 24, 2015 | Culture, Media, Prediction | Back to the Future, Chicago Cubs, Doc Brown, Fax Machines, Flying Cars, Fusion, Holographs, Hover-Boards, Marty McFly, Miami Marlins, Newspapers, The Internet