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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120229104746.htm
Friday, March 2, 2012
TEDxUIUC - Sherry Turkle - Alone Together
"the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship,"
"If we’re not able to be alone, we’re going to be more lonely."
"Reclaiming conversation. That's the next frontier."
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http://www.tedxuiuc.com/TEDxUIUC/Talks_Sherry_Turkle.html
Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle talks about her latest book called "Alone Together - Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other".
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- 15-years
- Abundant
- Alienate
- Alone Together
- Answering
- Asking
- Baby
- Bath water
- Breakfast
- Degradation
- Dinner
- Full attention
- Funeral
- Goth
- Increase productivity
- Intimacy
- Live for
- Long form
- MIT
- Messages
- More from technology
- Multitasking
- Open
- Performance exhaustion
- Performance of you
- Possible harm
- Privacy
- Quality
- Reconsider
- Respect
- Sear volume
- Sherry Turkle
- Technology
- Texting
- Thanksgiving dinner
- Where are you
- iPhone
Lytro Camera Lets You Pick What's Blurry And What's Not
Cool new technology. Reinvention of camera.
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Link:
http://allthingsd.com/20120229/radical-camera-lets-you-pick-whats-blurry-and-whats-not/
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Link:
http://allthingsd.com/20120229/radical-camera-lets-you-pick-whats-blurry-and-whats-not/
Silent Souls
Road movies take many forms, and "Silent Souls" is the road movie as metaphysical memory and meditation. This profound and immensely touching film in only 75 perfect minutes achieves the profundity of an epic. I read the description (two friends from the ancient Merjan tribe in Russia take a funeral trip involving the wife of one) and wasn't much interested; it sounded like ethnography without impact. Yet not often have I been more deeply touched.Continue Reading on RogerEbert.com
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
The Artist
Is it possible to forget that "The Artist" is a silent film in black and white, and simply focus on it as a movie? No? That's what people seem to zero in on. They cannot imagine themselves seeing such a thing. At a sneak preview screening here, a few audience members actually walked out, saying they didn't like silent films. I was reminded of the time a reader called me to ask about an Ingmar Bergman film. "I think it's the best film of the year," I said. "Oh," she said, "that doesn't sound like anything we'd like to see."Continue Reading on RogerEbert.com
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