Virtual shadow: “Socrates had as much trouble with then-new technologies as we do with modern tech. What’s the most disconcerting new technology out there? Saying technology is making us less attentive is a copout. Today, the group sing-alongs still happen, but the air shines with a different glow: the light of cell phones. MORE >>

And, systems like  Watson  will be extensively used to help experts deal with highly complex problems in areas like medicine, finance and national security. Social technology is creating the effect of “social heads in the sand” by believing  popular and influential ” are more important than the  meaningful and significant. MORE >>

icon icons location bar Mozilla security tool bar Tags: Technology problems chrome Firefox Firefox 3.5.3 Starting a few upgrades back, Firefox started showing this… …  when you clicked on that little icon at the left end of the location bar. What’s the name for that?) Now, with version 3.5.3 Mozilla’s? Of whom? MORE >>

Scott Klososky sent me a copy of Enterprise Social Technology with this handwritten note, “ If nothing else, it shows what can be done using crowd sourcing. &# The story of how this book was written provides an interesting subtext to its main subject. The twelve step method provides a clear path to implementation. Books MORE >>

The Boston-based entrepreneur and many-time TED speaker  is mulling the impact of social media and new technology in an interview with the TED Blog yesterday. Technology Juan Enriquez online security privacy social media technology TED2013 '“I’m not arguing that this stuff shouldn’t exist,” says Juan Enriquez. MORE >>