The document discusses various aspects of living in a digital world and dealing with information overload. It provides tips for managing information on the internet such as using bookmarks and folders. It also discusses the risks of distractions from technology like cell phones and recommends prioritizing time and attention. The document also covers topics like virtual reality, robotics, remote-controlled warfare, and the digital divide. Throughout, it emphasizes questions about the impacts of new technologies raised by Neil Postman.

1. Living in a Digital WorldWhat’s next?

2. Information overloadInformation coming at us from all directions

3. Information overload: Internet Web holds info for ready retrieval when you need it!You simply need to keep a record of WHERE the information is! Use your FAVORITES list

4. Use FOLDERS within your favorites list and Categorize by what makes sense to you

5. hobbies

6. health

7. travel

8. weatherInformation overload: Internet You might want to keep a notebook where you write the URLs of websites you want to rememberBe sure to write some key words in addition to the http:// address

9. Information overload: General lifeTurn off the TV and read a book!Turn off your cell phone when driving.Studies say you are 5 to 12 times more likely to have an accident while talking on the phone (even if you have a hands-free headset)! And, you are 23 times more likely to have an accident texting while driving!Turn off your cell phone at movies, theatre, dinner, etc.Most importantly, prioritize.Your time and attention are your most precious “commodities”.

10. Information overload: Multi-taskingLiving Faster: Split-focusPBS Frontline’s Digital nation (2/2010)Stanford Study of Multi-TaskingDigital Nation (2/2010)

11. Information overload: “Going viral”When links to online videosare e-mailed and forwarded, they are said to have “gone viral”Often numbers of views outnumber views of traditional media, such as network news

12. BreakHow do you manage “information overload”?

13. Virtual realityImmersive, 3D environmentSecond LifeInternet’s largest user-created, 3D virtual community

14. Virtual realityThe avatar effect PBS Frontline’s Digital Nation (2/2010)

15. Assistive TechnologyTechnology that’s used to helpsomeone overcome adisabilityAlliance for Technology AccessAssistive Technology: Opening Doors to Independence video

16. RoboticsLiving with (Robots (Honda)

17. RoboticsThe Tech Museumwww.usfirst.orgrobotics.nasa.gov

18. RoboticsJapanese robot with very realistic facial expressions http://www.physorg.com/news189528493.htmlhttp://www.geekosystem.com/japanese-robot-with-incredibly-realistic-facial-expressions/

19. RoboticsBig Dog

20. Boston Dynamics

21. “Dedicated to the art and Science of How Things Move”

22. Little Dog, RHex, Rise, SquishbotRemote-Control WarTaking out the taliban – home for dinner PBS Frontline’s Digital Nation (2/2010)“Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are credited with killing 11 of Al Qaeda's top 20 leaders in Pakistan.”The New York Times, June 2009

23. BreakWhat are your thoughts about virtual reality?What do you think about robots?Would you be comfortable having a robotic nurse tending to you in a hospital?Would you be comfortable riding in a remote-control vehicle?How do you feel about remote-control war?Does it change how inclined a country might be to enter a war if their soldiers aren’t at any physical risk?

24. Digital dividehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divideBridge the Digital Divide http://www.bridgethedigitaldivide.com/Internet World Stats http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

25. Digital divideOLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Projecthttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/Homehttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments

26. Technology’s impact on society…“ I doubt that the 21st century will pose problems for us that are more stunning, disorienting, or complex than those we faced in [the 20th] century or the 19th, 18th, 17th, or for that matter, any of the centuries before that.”“The human dilemma is as it has always been, and it is a delusion to believe that the technological changes of our era have rendered irrelevant the wisdom of the ages and the sages.” NeilPostman

27. Technology’s impact on society…“ In the next millennium we will find we are talking as much or more with machines than we are with humans. What seems to trouble people most is their self-consciousness about talking to inanimate objects.” Nicholas Negroponte in Being Digital“I have no doubt we can adapt ourselves to talking much more to machines than to people. We may even come to prefer it. But adaptation ought not to be equated with sanity.” Neil Postman in Six Questions

28. Technology’s impact on society…According to Neil Postman there are six important questions we need to keep in mind as society develops technology:What is the problem?Whose problem is it?What new problems will be created by solving an old one?What people and institutions will be most seriously harmed?What changes in language are occurring?What new sources of economic and political power will emerge?“Its doubtful that you could think of any single technology that did not generate new problems as a result of its having solved an old problem.Of course, it’s sometimes very difficult to know what new problems will arise as a result of the technological solution.” Neil Postman

29. ConclusionPlease e-mail me your thoughts, comments, questions, concerns. I look forward to corresponding with you! Sharon Gray gray@augie.edu

30. SourcesStaying Sane in a Technological Society: Six questions in search of an answer by Neil PostmanBeing Digital by Nicholas NegropontePBS Frontline’s Digital Nation (2/2010)Living Faster: Split-focusStanford Study of Multi-TaskingThe avatar effectTaking out the taliban – home for dinner Susan Boyle on YouTubeAlliance for Technology AccessAssistive Technology: Opening Doors to Independence videoRobotsLiving with (Robots (Honda)http://www.physorg.com/news189528493.htmlhttp://www.geekosystem.com/japanese-robot-with-incredibly-realistic-facial-expressions/Digital DivideBridge the Digital Divide http://www.bridgethedigitaldivide.com/Internet World Stats http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htmhttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/Homehttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deploymentshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide