Sublime

The new hires took advantage of Xerox’s abundant resources and loose oversight to creatively interpret Goldman’s definition of “data processing technology,” pursuing projects inspired by Doug Engelbart’s ideas about augmented intelligence and by hacker culture more generally. Engelbart’s SRI operation had drifted after the great demo—investors

In the largest view, I see a deep transformation in the nature of reading, a shift from focused, sequential, text-centered engagement to a far more lateral kind of encounter.

“As We May Think,” published in the Atlantic Monthly

Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, is an expert on the science of attention fragmentation.

When Ken is teaching at UC Berkeley, he asks his students who insist on taking notes on their laptops (which can be less effective for comprehension than taking notes by hand) to sit in a separate area. He knows that even if you don’t bring a laptop to class, if the person in front of you does, you’ll retain less of the lecture.