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McCain’s in-hearing poker game a sign of deepening technological creep

Global Politics

John McCain wasn’t “all-in” at Wednesday’s Senate Foreign Relation Committee meeting on Syria, or at least that’s what one reporter’s photo of him playing iPhone poker suggested to critics who expected him to pay better attention.

Connectivity through ‘digital saturation’ may come at the expense of conversation

Environment

Why do we predict?

Global Politics

Texting and teen development

Health & Medicine

“Terminator Salvation” and our romance with robots

Environment
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Lonely In A Digital Age

Many of us spend hours with our smartphones and computers, texting and emailing. We peruse social networking sites, updating our followers several times a day on our moods and thoughts. In many ways, it seems we have greater safeguards against loneliness than we ever have.  But Professor Sherry Turkle wonders if, in the age of digital […]

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What Compels Us to Predict an Unknowable Future?

Arts, Culture & Media

Anticipating the future is a classic (and possibly uniquely) human pastime. For as long as humans have kept records of the past, we have also tried to predict our future…and in so doing, control our destiny. Why do we cling to these predictions? The end of the world, the end of humanity, even our future […]

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Is technology tearing us apart?

Environment

While all this technology might seem harmless or even beneficial to the masses, Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and clinical psychologist, argues that it carries risks.

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Tech for the elderly and the risk of a robot takeover

Global Politics

In honor of all the silver foxes out there (and the people who love them), we dedicate this week’s tech segment to assistive technologies for older people.

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Blackberries at the dinner table

Arts, Culture & Media

This week’s look at family issues tackles the impact of technology in the household. Blackberries, laptops and mobile phones may increase access to knowledge, but do they isolate children from their parents?

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