Digital Fluency
It’s the paradoxical observation that the more we try to process, the less we actually can.
Self-help gurus for the digital age.
No one is teaching us how to be online. That’s a problem.
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People naturally judge fact from fiction in offline social settings, so why is it so hard online?
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“The digital HQ – the digital infrastructure that supports productivity and collaboration – actually became more important than the physical HQ.”
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
Unplugging only ignores the hard work of overcoming your distractions.
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Someone breaks into a mailbox that stores letters waiting to be sent and grabs some of them in hopes they’ll contain a check that’s been filled in. That’s just the start.
Maps can do more than show us places. They also can help determined people find others long lost, whether birth mothers or fugitive killers.
“Superjobs” – roles that integrate human and machine skills – will require careful consideration.
Older people are in grave danger of being left behind.
Every day, humanity generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. Every minute, users are sharing nearly 500,000 tweets, watching more than 4 million YouTube videos, and conducting more than 3.6 million […]