One of the new emerging information technologies that we are witnessing today is this idea of augmented reality. This notion of taking the world of everyday perception and tweaking it, augmenting it, and impregnating perception with mindedness and with aesthetics. So what does that mean? It essentially means that the information technologies and instruments we’re using today to manipulate and transform […]
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next […]
What it is, why we have it, it’s still an unknown and we are a long ways from understanding. [youtube id=”ir8XITVmeY4″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Also ref: Theory of mind
“First we build the tools, then they build us.” – Marshall McLuhan Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC, was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar — a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist. McLuhan’s work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is known for […]
So let me share with you my First Time Uber Experience I’ve taken work trip out to Chicago, IL this week and decided on not renting a car, and attempt using Uber. Uber is a taxi cab like service with a slight twist, allowing customers with smartphones to literally summon a car ride to take them […]
Its hard to believe that millions of older people can go up to a month, even more without speaking with anyone. But it doesn’t have to be this way. These men and women from all walks of life need interaction just like the rest of us. This is why John Lewis has partnered with Age UK […]