Richard E. Cytowic's Blog, page 8
August 2, 2019
Can We Offend Androids and Artificial Intelligence Machines?
In the future, will robots be friend or foe—and who gets to determine the relationship?
July 28, 2019
What Happens When Instagram Hides Your “Likes?”
Serious questions surround the power of social media to shape self-worth.
July 11, 2019
When You Trample Nature For the Sake of a Selfie, You Lose.
Social media has brought smartphone-wielding hoards to once-pristine vistas—along with headaches, environmental ruin, and death. What can be done? How can you reclaim the benefits?
When Nature Gets Trashed For the Sake of Selfies
Social media brings smartphone–wielding hoards to once–sleepy vistas, plus headaches, environmental ruin, and death. Local municipalities unable to cope with Instagram fanatics.
July 2, 2019
Are You Trying to Quit Twitter Cold Turkey ? Be careful!
The power of instant gratification is enticing but a harmful blight on your being l. Here's what to do when Social Media becomes your only avenue for personal fulfillment.
Quitting Cold Turkey on Twitter?
The Internet becomes a blight on our being when it becomes the only avenue for personal fulfillment. Its power of instant gratification can become harmfully enticing.
June 27, 2019
2 Ways Web Personalities Fill Our Hunger for Real Friendship
Friends are those who do friendly things. The best way to win friends is to act like one, not soothe loneliness in front of the screen chasing "likes" from remote strangers.
April 13, 2019
Does Your Cluttered Desk Signal Chaos or Creativity?
Leave that messy desk alone! There's a cost to a too–neat workplace. Decluttering gurus say it's easy to decide what to hang onto and what to toss. But no. Here's what you can do.
Does a Cluttered Desk Signal Chaos or Creativity?
Leave that messy desk alone! There is a cost to a too-clean environment. Decluttering gurus think we can easily decide what to hang onto and what to discard. But we can’t.
April 11, 2019
Time Travel and Strong Memories—Tinted by Unusual Colors!
There are so many stories I would tell you if I could only tell them in their colors. Tint them, shade them, make it so you’d grasp what I remember.
