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Life and relationships in the internet age
Well it’s that time of year again. College graduation season is upon us and a temporary feeling of joy and optimism abounds as it should. As for Mom and Dad relief may be a more apt description – there were days they had serious questions about your commitment to the project but now thankfully ...
What's the Latest Development? One of the many cyberwarfare projects coming out of the US government carries the intriguing title "Plan X." DARPA has already spent over $5 million on preliminary studies involving some of the country's best-known game developers and special effects houses, and ...
Work penetrates every aspect of our life, so how do you strike a work-life balance? Personally, I’m terrible at it. I have absolutely no balance. My life and my work life are one in the same. I think about experiments every time I meet people. I do experiments all the time. So I’m not an ...
At the age of 16 I dropped out of school to start my first company and I think the advantage that ended up happening at that time is when you’re young you really don’t have the concept of failure. You don’t really have the concept of fear. That’s why even when you’re younger than that you can ...
What's the Latest Development? Designers at Melbourne's RMIT University have come up with a game called Cart-Load-o-Fun that is meant to be played together by two riders on a train, tram or bus. Similar to Pac-Man, the game requires the two players to "work together to move a dot around on a ...
I saw this in an airport: a woman had her laptop on her lap. She had an iPad in one hand, an iPhone in the other hand and iPod connected to her ears. But here’s the good part. Everything was off and she was reading a paper book. That gave me hope that people are going to stop all of this ...
Feminism is an interesting topic to look at in the context of today's college students because in many ways they're leading what I call the third wave of feminism and it's a wave that ironically is in many ways personified by Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga embraces her sexuality, but it's okay for her ...
When AMC said that they would not show The Aristocrats , the movie company ranted about this being a horrible attack on freedom of speech. And they wanted me to write editorials about how AMC was taking away my creative freedom. And I said I’m on AMC's side. I’m absolutely 100 percent on their ...
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey released this image of workers at vertigo-inducing heights as they work to complete the "crown jewel of lower Manhattan," One World Trade Center. For more information on the progress of the project, visit here.
I think one of the problems I think with a lot of people in high school is that people don’t think of the internet as a real place or a place that has physical consequences in the physical world. This happens with adults who ought to know better too. People stuff online on a whim about what ...
It’s tremendously important that a society have social mobility. That’s more important than its degree of inequality because you can imagine a society in which there was quite a wide distribution of income, a big gap between the top one percent and the bottom one, but high mobility. And you ...
No one ever told me that the place I would choose to live was important. I was fortunate enough to be born in northern New Jersey. I was born in the New York metropolitan area, even though I was working class that gave me a lot of opportunities and stimulation. Someone born in Africa or parts ...
The title of my book Hooked Up: A New Generation's Surprising Take on Sex, Politics and Saving the World has an obvious sexual ambiguity. Young people are not only hooked on the Internet, hooked together by the Internet, but they're hooking up in relationship to find and manage through the Internet ...
In the spirit of maintaining an open mind, and in an attempt to purge myself of past prejudices, I will be re-reading The Great Gatsby this weekend. After all, this is the perfect time of year to read Gatsby, as Big Think blogger Andrea Chalupa pointed out in this recent tribute, noting that ...
What's the Latest Development? A small but growing number of aging baby boomers, primarily women who don't have or don't live near children and younger relatives, are choosing group housing in which they live together, share expenses, and provide extra social support. Bonnie Moore opened her ...