Is There a Safe Way to Text While Driving? Probably not but the @NavdyInc w/ headsup display tries to enable this
http://www.wsj.com/articles/review-is-there-a-safe-way-to-text-while-driving-1478107545
Prick up your ears
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21707955-wireless-headphones-and-smart-speakers-herald-new-class-devices-prick-up-your-ears To come for #headphones: layered listening (audio augmented reality), nod detection, assistants
My #Distraction Sickness, & Yours by @sullydish
http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/09/andrew-sullivan-technology-almost-killed-me.html An issue of the iPhone age; perhaps addressed by a digital Sabbath?
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If the churches came to understand that the greatest threat to faith today is not hedonism but distraction, perhaps they might begin to appeal anew to a frazzled digital generation. Christian leaders seem to think that they need more distraction to counter the distraction. Their services have degenerated into emotional spasms, their spaces drowned with light and noise and locked shut throughout the day, when their darkness and silence might actually draw those whose minds and souls have grown web-weary. But the mysticism of Catholic meditation — of the Rosary, of Benediction, or simple contemplative prayer — is a tradition in search of rediscovery. The monasteries — opened up to more lay visitors — could try to answer to the same needs that the booming yoga movement has increasingly met.
And imagine if more secular places responded in kind: restaurants where smartphones must be surrendered upon entering, or coffee shops that marketed their non-Wi-Fi safe space? Or, more practical: more meals where we agree to put our gadgets in a box while we talk to one another? Or lunch where the first person to use their phone pays the whole bill? We can, if we want, re-create a digital Sabbath each week — just one day in which we live for 24 hours without checking our phones. Or we can simply turn off our notifications. Humans are self-preserving in the long run. For every innovation there is a reaction, and even the starkest of analysts of our new culture, like Sherry Turkle, sees a potential for eventually rebalancing our lives. “}}
#Bitcoin Rival Ethereum Gains Traction…. but suffers $55m theft due to hacked code. Wow!
http://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-rival-ether-gains-traction-1466461279
Obama After Dark
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/us/politics/obama-after-dark-the-precious-hours-alone.html Interesting tidbits: 2a-7a #sleep, quiet time post-dinner, Times on sofa w/ iPad, Fri movie night
quiet time after dinner on sofa or easy chair
When Your #Gym Is Your Office
http://www.wsj.com/articles/when-your-gym-is-your-office-1467128143 Another way to achieve the treadmill desk, without multi-tasking. Highlights @Equinox
The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, By Ants
http://priceonomics.com/the-independent-discovery-of-tcpip-by-ants/ Protocol has similarities to #ant communication; man reinventing nature