Making A Good Impression On The World
One of the most fundamental concepts that has been discussed in this column is that people need organic imprints to feel fully alive and to prepare for death. An organic …
Laurence Mesirow
Behaving Like A Robot With Other People
In writing about the effects of modern technology on human behavior, there has been a focus in this column on how modern technology directly affects the user. How does the …
Mapping Out Moral Behavior
The word map is frequently used when we want to create a visual image of the physical relationship between different phenomena. When we use it for the environments in which …
Losing One’s Touch For Touching
The human sense of touch seems to be under ongoing attack by modern technological innovation. In some cases, the experience of touching stimuli is reduced as in swiping one’s fingers …
Becoming A Part Of The Internet of Dogs
The main focus of this column has been the effects of modern technology on living environments and on humans and their behavior. My purpose has been to show how increasingly …
Turning Poems And Plays Into Data
The pervasive penetration of modern technology is now extending into areas of human life that one would never have associated with modern technology. I have talked in the past of …
When Technology Can Take Over Who We Are, (En Inglés)
One of the major themes of this column has been how the boundaries between people and machines are disappearing. People are becoming more and more like machines, and machines are …
Pinpointing A Cause Of Student Problems Today
My good friend, Martin Hardeman, Associate Professor of American History at Eastern Illinois University, was expressing frustration about his students during a telephone conversation we were having. He was discussing …
Losing Control Over Oneself To One’s Selfies
Selfies are all the rage in today’s modern technological society. It has become so easy, so effortless to take pictures of oneself in all sorts of situations with different people …
When Making Toys Becomes Child’s Play
More and more of the technological processes we produce today seem like magic. We produce machines that have more and more defined discrete parts: both mechanical pieces as well as …