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This section of the AARP site provides articles for seniors with information on buying tips, new tools, privacy & security, social media and other recommendations on using technology. The articles are for the novice as well as the experienced technology user. Specific to our conversation on digital divide are the articles on "Boomers Catching Up in Technology Use"

The writer of the article I just posted pollled NYT readers for how they use technology to manage the many directions their lives are pulled every day. So far, there are 69 comments...

This article discusses SXSW-Interactive, the technology portion of the festival. This is the festival where Twitter was first launched in 2007. Theme so far: the blurring of real life and online life is happening. Other topics discussed: web 3.0, asymmetry of privacy, biomimicry (designing technology to mimic nature), work/life balance. Clay Shirky also gave a presentation on social media and revolution: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/12/sxsw-2011-clay-shirky-social-media

Technology aids social people to maintain and sustain more relationships.

This article is intriguing. It pertains more to bio-technology, but I found it pretty fascinating that parts of our bodies could be engineered to be better than they previously were...including out brains.....? "[Kurzweil] claims that the human brain will be entirely reverse-engineered by the 2020's, and that it will then be able to be modified to be exponentially more powerful than the natural human brain."

Review of Kevin Kelly's new book. At the end of the review, there is a comparison of Kelly's optimist view of technology with the dark vision as laid out in Jaron Lanier's "You are not a gadget."

I read this article last week, but thought I'd post it to the group after watching the Kevin Kelley talk.

Very good article on the invasion of technology in one's family life, via smartphones.

A pathfinder that provides an overview of using technology with at-risk students (students who are at-risk of dropping out, usually those who come from low-income minority households).

The chapters in this volume explore the theoretical, design, learning, and methodological questions with respect to designing for and researching web-based communities to support learning. The authors, coming from diverse academic backgrounds (computer science, information science, instructional systems technology, educational psychology, sociology, and anthropology), are frank in examining what we do and do not know about the processes and practices of designing communities to support learning.

nothing like ICT related article hot off the press!

I found a similar article from the UN sharing how cell phones and texting was used during a recent election in Kenya to limit riots and other unsafe activities. Though not used for either candidate the initiative did save lives and destruction of public areas by quickening the response times of police.

The internet being cut off in Egypt is just unprecedented. What are people reading and what sources are they following? Here's an interesting article about how it was turned off: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/01/egypts-internet-blackout-unprecedented.html also, it's interesting how one small company is still providing service and how people with international calling plans can use foreign dial-up providers. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/despite-severed-connections-egyptians-get-back-online/70479/

A department of the World Bank with expertise in policy and regulatory matters, in eGovernment, information technology, innovation and the enabling environment. Promotes access to information and communication technologies in developing countries.

Using social media to drive social change

A paper written by two technology professionals with recommendations on how to enhance community using technology tools. Basis of their article focuses on importance of interaction with content, interaction with instructor, and interaction with students.

Sherry Turkle has a new book out...

interesting: in the new book, turkle, "takes a considerably darker view, arguing that our new technologies - including e-mail messages, Facebook postings, Skype exchanges, role-playing games, Internet bulletin boards and robots - have made convenience and control a priority while diminishing the expectations we have of other human beings."

The benefit of food focused community building: contributing to a shareable world.

And so artificial intelligence type software is now threatening the livelihood of those in the legal profession. I have a friend who's a paralegal doing the type of work these "e-discovery" software programs can now do. I wonder if he's been aware of this kind of technology developing. I also wonder what will come next....

Has anyone read this? I think I will have to get this book. His lecture in the early weeks stuck with me and I keep poking around on his "kk.org" site.

No I havent read it but am thinking of dowloading it if it is available.

I am really skeptical of Kevin Kelly even since we viewed that TED lecture, but I have been going to his blog weekly anyway. He had a post earlier this week about the price of e-books - he thinks they will inevitably fall to $0.99 per book and nick carr responded and tore apart his logic.

This book was mentioned in the NYT article on SXSW that I just posted. Instead of arguing whether technology makes us dumber or smarter, the author provides insight on how we can better adopt technology into our lives, which involves periods of disconnectedness.

Thanks for sharing this, this is very useful for my term project. Making tools work for us, rather than ever feeling the other way is key.

Interesting roundup of the South by Southwest Festival and the proliferation of movies and panels about the effects of technology.