… from technology overload?
The New York Times reports that when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas.
A few years ago, pundits were predicting internet equipped, self-monitoring refrigerators, which would place automatic orders with your online grocery store, when supplies ran low. These refrigerators may not have arrived yet, but technology has not stopped reaching for new frontiers.
Advertising is becoming ever more intrusive. Cookies and other methods track our movements on line (though astute web users know how to limit this intrusion on privacy), advertising not only flashes before our eyes on television, billboards and web pages, but advertising is coming to ebooks, is projected onto the street as you walk and now, it is even set to encroach upon the otherwise calm and static pages of journals and magazines. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Arie Folger 
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