Friday, February 18, 2011
Generation net: The youngsters who prefer their virtual lives to the real world and one on automated parking garages… You Can’t Replace Human Business with Robots Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, “script”, “facebook-jssdk”));
Friday, February 11, 2011
Hi-Tech Problems and Addictions Electric Lighting… Light Pollution = More Smog? Just Pretend? Generation net: The youngsters who prefer their virtual lives to the real world Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, “script”, “facebook-jssdk”));
Hi-Tech Problem at the Highest Levels: White House suffers e-mail outage Low-Tech Solutions to Problems: Low-tech rock? My low-tech world Low-tech for mental health Unplugged: A low-tech trek in the Grand Canyon Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, [...]
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Complicated Appliances The control panel for our Kenmore dryer recently broke. Instead of a simple machine with a couple of temperature settings and a timer, today’s clothes dryers have multiple modes and way too many buttons. The more complicated machines become, the more points of failure they have. Our dryer has settings for: Cotton/towels Heavy [...]
Exploring the real 3D world… Nintendo 3D Warning For Children Obedience and the GPS Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, “script”, “facebook-jssdk”));