Raising Children in the Age of the Smartphone
Last week, NPR’s Science Friday host Ira Flatow spoke with social scientist Sherry Turkle, occasioned by the release of her book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. Part of their conversation addressed parents’ inability to control themselves around technology, and children feeling like their competing with iPhones and [...]
The Paperless Office: I CALLED IT!
In 2002, I wrote a lengthy response to Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker piece on The Social Life of Paper. Gladwell was addressing a recent book at the time, The Myth of the Paperless Office, and coming to the conclusion, with them, that all this gee-whiz computer technology is not leading to a paperless office, and [...]
