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Marshall McLuhan wrote that every new technology was an extension of the human body but also an amputation of the same function from the body itself, and computers’ ability to furnish us with a second brain implies that our first brains have correspondingly atrophied.
Drew Austin • #187: A Rainbow in Curved Air
Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgHow to Walk and Talk: Everything We Know
How to plan and organize a walk-and-talk, including choosing participants, setting the duration and distance, arranging meals and lodging, and managing logistics and communications.
kk.orgIn 1980, Steve Jobs was discussing computing and used a simple yet powerful metaphor for how computers can be bicycles for the mind. Technology amplifies our capabilities — and computing can now do the same thing for our minds. Here are two versions of the same talk by Jobs — one in 1980 and another ten years later, both around a minute long and
... See moreJohn Borthwick • Building bicycles for our minds
The brain and mind are like hardware and software in a computer — the brain forms the physical structure, while the mind acts as the instructions that shape how that structure functions. Just as software can change how hardware operates, our thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions can influence brain activity.
Dr Mehmet Yildiz • Train Your Brain for Healthier & Happier Life: A Practical Guide to Stimulate, Rest, & Nourish the Brain for Optimal Health Based on Decades of Research & Experimentation in Cognitive Science


I sometimes forget that not everyone is as immersed in this stuff as I am, so allow me to explain what I mean when I say this is all over in 20 years anyways. This is not an arbitrary measure. 2045 is a very specific year. Specifically the attached graph.
Many things become possible as compute scales exponentially. But... See more