Lately I’ve been considering how much time I spend in front of my smartphone and wondering if it really is addiction. And then I started reading a lot of articles about how tech companies have essentially made us addicted to…
Category: Digital Dilemma
Biometric Behavior Data Collection
I recently read a few articles about the collection of a new kind of biometrics, our behavior and movements. The full list incorporates hundreds of data points, but includes things such as the angle at which we hold our devices,…
JOMO
Last month I read an article titled “How to Make This the Summer of Missing Out.” It was in the self-care section. JOMO is an acronym for the Joy of Missing Out. Some years ago I blogged about FOMO a…
Just the Highlights
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the FIFA games over the last month. This time I printed out a grid to keep track of the teams. After each round my partner and I would reassess our predictions as one team after another…
Information Filtering
With so much information available on the internet, it would be onerous to find anything if we didn’t have a little help from filtering and customization. Every time you search for something, everything is essentially available. Think of how many…