Psychology of Technology Archive
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Psychology of Technology: In Praise of the Blog "Commentariat"
Posted February 18, 2010by Dr. Jim Taylor | 8 CommentsSome time ago, I wrote a post titled The Blogosphere Jungle in which I described the truly uncivil nature of the blogosphere in which respect for opposing views and dispassionate discourse were out and ad... -
Psychology of Technology: Is Technology Making Us Idiots?
Posted February 10, 2010by Dr. Jim Taylor | 7 CommentsIn his insightful 2008 article in the Atlantic, Nicolas Carr asks, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” He goes on to explore how new technology has altered our reading habits and, more unsettlingly, how we process... -
Psychology of Technology: The Law of Unintended Consequences
Posted January 27, 2010by Dr. Jim Taylor | No CommentsI’ve been called a skeptic, an alarmist, and a doomsayer because the focus of most of my technology blogging is on the risks of and what’s wrong with technology. I realize that I may sound... -
Psychology of Technology: 10 Things I Love About Technology
Posted January 19, 2010by Dr. Jim Taylor | 6 CommentsI’ve been reviewing my technology-related blog posts of late and I’ve noticed a particular trend that I find troubling: I seem to be a technology doomsayer. The overriding theme I’ve identified in my own writing... -
Psychology of Technology: Less Input, More “Innerput”
Posted January 13, 2010by Dr. Jim Taylor | No CommentsThe Web, the Internet, and all of the new media that has sprung from them , have been a boon to the information age, making information available at our fingertips instantaneously. The sheer volume of... -
Psychology of Technology: Off Line, On Life
Posted January 6, 2010by Dr. Jim Taylor | 3 CommentsThe title of this post refers to an epiphany I had over the New Year’s weekend. The realization was about my relationship with technology, namely, I was exhibiting some of the symptoms of technology addiction.... -
Psychology of Technology: Real-time Web, Unreal-time Life
Posted December 16, 2009by Dr. Jim Taylor | No CommentsPete Cashmore, the founder and CEO of Mashable, the well-read social-media blog, suggested in a recent CNN column that real-time Web is one of the top 10 Web trends of 2010. Real-time Web means being... -
Psychology of Technology: The Art of the Deal
Posted December 15, 2009by Dr. Jim Taylor | No CommentsOn my recent post about AT&T, a commenter, Who? (no, this isn’t a Who’s on First game; that’s his username), asked me to elaborate on how I am consistently able to get good deals from... -
Psychology of Technology: On-line Communities: The Kindness of Strangers
Posted December 10, 2009by Dr. Jim Taylor | 2 CommentsFor those of you who follow my Psychology of Technology blog posts (especially here and here), you know that I’m a bit cynical about how technology is impacting us, particularly when it comes to how... -
Psychology of Technology: Should Search Engines Have a Conscience?
Posted December 9, 2009by Dr. Jim Taylor | No CommentsThe recent appearance of a racist image of the First Lady Michelle Obama during a search on Google’s search engine raises an interesting question: Should search engines have a conscience? Obviously, search engines, like Google,...
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