Under the trained eye
The eye works as a paintbrush, coloring the world with a palette of vitality. Unfortunately, the constant bombardment of external stimuli torpedoes our attention, bankrupting...
Tag: technology
What are you to me?
Mirroring reality may be the expectation of technology, but that is not its purpose. Its purpose is to synchronize our real-life identity with our online...
Are we still alive?
Somewhere upon the way of evolution, humans lucked out. We developed language. And we grew hands and fingers that allowed us to manipulate our environment....
Ludic loop
In his blog post on breaking phone addiction, Erik Barker uses a quote from NYU marketing and psychology professor Adam Antler to explain why we keep checking our...
Flashes of intuition
When we drop a coin in the dark, our first instinct is to look for the nearest lite brite (be it a streetlight or our...
Thinking in the cracks
We think in the cracks all the time. We fill in the blank spaces throughout our day with either fodder or deliberation. The observer internalizes...
Humans are noticing machines
It doesn’t take a lot of effort to become a noticing machine. But it does take practice, exercising the eyes, ears, to stretch the thinking...
Coping with ‘the colossal volume of memories’
In an interview with the Financial Times, Apple lead designer office Jony Ive points to one of the technological conundrums of our time: balancing ease...
Underground bicycle parking systems in Japan
The robotic system, called the Eco Cycle, stores bikes 36 feet underground. It can store 204 bikes at a time. To use it, you need...