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Zach Omer
Jan 30, 20193 min read
Day to Day, a Data Daze
The smooth, clean interface of our modern communicative technology rarely shows it, but there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes...
Zach Omer
Jan 21, 20193 min read
JARVIS Take the Wheel
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...
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Zach Omer
Dec 14, 20186 min read
Response Ability [Musical Remix]
Overview The average audio backdrop in today’s society would undoubtedly contain a cacophony of text alerts, ringtones, vibrations, and...
Zach Omer
Dec 8, 201718 min read
Smartphones & News Consumption in the U.S.
Introduction In January of 2007, Steve Jobs announced to the world that Apple would be releasing the iPhone, a new brand of smartphone...
Zach Omer
Nov 18, 201419 min read
Shifts in Epistemology: How Our Thinking has Changed
Since the beginning of our existence, humans have been working tirelessly to make our lives easier. What a beautiful irony. And we have...
Zach Omer
Oct 31, 20143 min read
Journal #9: Faster Isn't Always Better
Benjamin Barber’s chapter on “Infantilizing Consumers” is stuffed full of interesting points regarding the current trivial and childish...
Zach Omer
Oct 24, 20143 min read
Journal #8: Infantilization and the Dangers of Consumerism
The main focus of Benjamin Barber’s first chapter of Consumed is the infantilist ethos that has taken hold of our society. Barber says...
Zach Omer
Oct 17, 20143 min read
Journal #7: Evolution Takes Patience
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...
Zach Omer
Oct 10, 20143 min read
Journal #6: Breaking the Buzz
In one of the final chapters of The Shallows, I reflected on a line from page 218: “Conscious craft turns into unconscious routine.”...
Zach Omer
Oct 3, 20143 min read
Journal #5: The Triviality of Social Media
One of my favorite analogies in Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows comes on page 124, when Carr says, “Imagine filling a bathtub with a...
Zach Omer
Sep 26, 20143 min read
Journal #4: Caught Up in the Web
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...
Zach Omer
Sep 19, 20143 min read
Journal #3: Postman & "Edutainment"
In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman’s chapter on “Teaching as an Amusing Activity” argues that “we cannot avoid the conclusion that a...
Zach Omer
Sep 12, 20142 min read
Journal #2: "What Else is Reading But Comprehension?"
In the chapter titled, “The Typographic Mind” of Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman discusses how American society functioned...
Zach Omer
Sep 5, 20143 min read
Journal #1: The Medium is the Metaphor
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...
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