Tag: Technology
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It’s fun because the algorithm seems to know your taste. Sure, it learns as you go. But at the same time, as it gets better, the more you’re sucked into a never-ending recommendations list. And dopamine hits are so attractive that you just want to laugh and laugh after one comical skit, then another, letting…
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Does it ever scare you to try something new? Not that I travel a lot, but on occasions that I do, I try to read the road signs just in case I have to travel through that route again. And most of the time, I really have to travel mainly on the same streets, doing…
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It’s not just about entertainment out there on the internet. There’s also a battlefield. I learned more about it when I read Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers and wrote my thoughts about it here (on my previous website). And in light of spreading fake news…
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I was duped. I bought an item I’ve been thinking about for some time now, a portable WiFi. Because these days, access to the internet is everything and you’d be missing so much at work while working away from the office if you won’t get a good one. Perhaps that’s what’s missing about the goodbye…
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It really felt nostalgic having my dead smartphone again in my hands. It felt unusually bulky than the keypad phone I’m beginning to get used to. And this is the time to take it out from its grave. Because my work and lifestyle is way much intertwined with how I connect to mobile devices. I…
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The title is a direct quote from a summary section in the book Future Minds: How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters, and What We Can Do About It by Richard Watson. Although the book was published in 2010, I believe that we can still learn something from it, even twelve…
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Perhaps, my smartphone (which died four months ago) gave my brain space to breathe and my small hands some freedom. I know I’ve become like a parrot telling you again and again how I begin to notice the people surrounding me relate to their smartphones because where else would my attention go? There’s nothing much…