Backup Scheduled for 2030: Your Entire Brain

October 3, 2009
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Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorelei-ranveig/ / CC BY-SA 2.0 He’s clearly a brilliant guy with some very significant accomplishments behind him. Ray Kurzweil offers predictions on where we will be with technology in the future. In Kurzweil’s estimation, we will be able to upload the human brain to a computer, capturing “a person’s entire personality, memory, skills [...]

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Families and Technology (Kindle Edition)!

August 3, 2009
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You can now read Families and Technology on Your Kindle! My thought on the Kindle (and e-book readers in general) is that they aren’t the same as other screens. They aren’t any more interactive than a book. They aren’t backlit, so they’re not stimulating. The e-Ink display does not support animation, so you can’t play [...]

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LOL!! Im abt 2 die vlntly!

August 1, 2009
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A Google image search for texting while driving will turn up some pictures that will give you nightmares. If your kids text while driving, you might want to show those pictures to them. I am not inclined to link to them here because… they are gross. But if it makes your texting teen rethink updating [...]

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Wife blows MI6 chief’s cover on Facebook

July 6, 2009
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Kids, be careful about what you put up on your facebook pages. It could come back to haunt you when you apply for a job some day. And grown-ups… heed the same warning! Wife blows MI6 chief’s cover on Facebook The wife of the new head of MI6 has caused a major security breach and [...]

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Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles

June 17, 2009

Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles The rectangles even help Americans to successfully emote, often by using a combination of visual and aural signals to indicate when laughter or tears should be produced. “Life would be very different if it weren’t for these magical squares of light,” cultural studies professor and [...]

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Why Do Some Adults Have a Harder Time Unplugging Than Kids?

May 17, 2009
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Who do you think has anxiety the most from kids having to unplug from their devices when they go to summer camp for two weeks? The kids? Or Mom or Dad? In some cases, both. Having gone through an Internet connectivity outage that went on for over twenty four hours, I can understand what it [...]

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Online Predator Risks Put Into Perspective

May 7, 2009

Photo by Wesley Fryer You’re watching the evening news and the anchor says, “Coming up next! Something that will scare the crap out of you!” After a sequence of commercials, back to the news program where they report on a murder, or an abduction, or just something that shocks and frightens you. They peddle fear [...]

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Free Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy

April 26, 2009

Talking to my ex the other day about my 13-year-old son and how I would be willing to let him go hang out by the beach with his friends in the summer time, she made it clear that she wouldn’t agree to that. I pointed out that when we were 13 years old that we [...]

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Will Facebook Use Affect your Grades?

April 13, 2009

A recent study suggests that your grades will suffer if you’re a heavy Facebook user. Researchers from the US have found that students prone to accumulating friends, uploading photographs, chatting and “poking” others on Facebook may devote as little as one hour a week to their academic work. “Our study shows people who spend more [...]

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One Reason Kids Should Learn To Play an Instrument

April 8, 2009

Are your kids in the band or orchestra at their schools? Do they play a cello, a violin, a piano, or a trumpet… They say that learning to read and play music on an instrument is a terrific educational tool. I assume that is mostly true as long as they’re playing an instrument other than [...]

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