Archive for May, 2008

You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone

Technology and the Lost Art of Thinking

Think...before you forget how

 My 17-year-old can text faster than I can type. She has more technology in her purse than I had in my whole house when I was her age. 

But even as a teen, I knew not to push a truck with a subcompact car, and could tell you whether it was better to buy a pint of something for $1 or a quart for $1.50.

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Allergic to Technology

Cell phones and iPods can give you allergies

I didn’t sneeze much when I was a kid. Neither did many of my friends.

Presumably it’s because we didn’t have iPods.

New studies say technology causes allergies, just like pollen, mold and  dust.

“Technophiles should take caution that some of their favorite gadgets may be the culprit of certain allergy symptoms,” says Dr. Todd Rosengart, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Stony Brook University Medical Hospital on Long Island, NY and chief medical advisor of MDX Medical, the company that created Vitals.com, a doctor evaluation site.

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Tech Fears Revisited

A decade ago, when I named my first wireless network Cry for Help, I was more intent on keeping technology at arm’s length than bonding with it. I didn’t understand even the basic equipment I owned and constantly worried that it would just stop working, for no apparent reason.

I thought computers devoured data for sport, to boost their AI quotient in preparation for some future robot uprising.

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