The smooth, clean interface of our modern communicative technology rarely shows it, but there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes...

When I was flying back to Washington D.C. after the holiday break, the airport TSA worker at my gate asked if I was traveling with smart...

Overview The average audio backdrop in today’s society would undoubtedly contain a cacophony of text alerts, ringtones, vibrations, and...

Introduction In January of 2007, Steve Jobs announced to the world that Apple would be releasing the iPhone, a new brand of smartphone...

Since the beginning of our existence, humans have been working tirelessly to make our lives easier. What a beautiful irony. And we have...

Benjamin Barber’s chapter on “Infantilizing Consumers” is stuffed full of interesting points regarding the current trivial and childish...

The main focus of Benjamin Barber’s first chapter of Consumed is the infantilist ethos that has taken hold of our society. Barber says...

We live in a very impatient world. It’s a world where people distribute their time by the second. If a video pauses before loading, many...

In one of the final chapters of The Shallows, I reflected on a line from page 218: “Conscious craft turns into unconscious routine.”...

One of my favorite analogies in Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows comes on page 124, when Carr says, “Imagine filling a bathtub with a...

Nicholas Carr is upfront in the opening chapter of The Shallows by remarking on how he can feel his brain changing. He says, “Over the...

In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman’s chapter on “Teaching as an Amusing Activity” argues that “we cannot avoid the conclusion that a...

In the chapter titled, “The Typographic Mind” of Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman discusses how American society functioned...

On the last page of the foreword (page xx) in Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman writes, “Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin...