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The First Company To Build Your Identity Into Your Phone Wins The Next Decade
Editor’s note: Rebekah Cox is a product designer at Quora and previously a product design lead at Facebook. This post is a followup to a recent tweet, and first appeared on Quora .
Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways. If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are.
The 'Busy' Trap
Teenage Sexting Is Becoming The Norm
“Under most existing laws, if our findings were extrapolated nationally, several million teens could be prosecuted for child pornography,” explains a new study on teen sexting, which finds that a whopping 28% of teenagers text fully-nude pictures of themselves. We took a deep dive into the much reported Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine article, and found some weird insights into a 21st century trend that is quickly becoming the norm among teenagers. 1.Thousands of Twitter passwords exposed | Security & Privacy
Twitter is investigating the release of what appear to be thousands of user account passwords and e-mail addresses. "We are currently looking into the situation.
April 17, 2012 by tomwhitby Every educator knows what their school is like, but few really understand what Twitter is like.
What If School Was More Like Twitter
This was written by John Merrow, veteran education reporter for PBS, NPR, and dozens of national publications.
Teaching kids to be ‘digital citizens’ (not just ‘digital natives’) - The Answer Sheet
This morning, Elon University and the Pew Internet and American Life Project released a report about the cognitive future of the millennial generation. Based on surveys with more than 1,000 thought leaders -- among them danah boyd , Clay Shirky , David Weinberger , and Alexandra Samuel -- the survey asked thinkers to consider how the Internet and its environment are changing, for better or worse, kids' cognitive capabilities.
Kids' Cognition Is Changing—Education Will Have to Change With It - Megan Garber - Technology
When workers in the cafeteria ran outside, they saw black smoke pouring from shattered windows. It came from the area where employees polished thousands of cases a day. Two people were killed immediately, and over a dozen others hurt.
Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China
What If This Is No Accident? What If This Is The Future?
The New Luddites are back, and they’re packing heat. The mighty Economist writes of “the disturbing thought” that “America’s current employment woes stem from a precipitous and permanent change caused by not too little technological progress, but too much … A tipping point seems to have been reached, at which AI-based automation threatens to supplant the brain-power of large swathes of middle-income employees.”