Author: Dr. Jim Taylor

Like many digital natives, your children are probably on their way to becoming lifelong multitaskers (or so you think). As the research indicates, children these days spend about

How involved in technology your children are is only half of the equation in its impact on them. The other half, of course, is the degree to which

What do smoke signals, drums, books, the telegraph, telephone, fax, mobile phones, and the Internet have in common? They have incrementally enabled us to connect with more people

The Internet is a truly remarkable advancement in our ability to access information. Just about anything we could possibly want to know is now just a few keystrokes

I was out for a bike ride a few weeks ago in beautiful Marin County, north of San Francisco. As usual, I was wearing my bluetooth headset, a

I’ve been flashing ROMs and otherwise tweaking my mobile phones for several years now. One thing I’ve learned is that I never seem to learn. In my pursuit

Yes, you heard me right. I asked whether you are capable of disconnecting…from your smartphone, PC, laptop, tablet, or mp3 player! I realize that is a shocking and

Karl Marx famously called religion the “opiate of the masses.” Well, to paraphrase Reggie Hammond, Eddie Murphy’s character in the film 48 Hours, “There’s a new opiate in

In my last post, I described my search for the perfect laptop for this traveling man. If you recall, I bought an Asus Transformer Prime (ATP ) and its

My four-year-old Sony laptop is on its last legs, so I’ve been in the hunt for a new notebook computer. I travel a lot and could never understand