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reflections

No Phones on the Field

Posted on Friday, May 3rd, 2019 by Will Cox

I have been using my iPhone as a stopwatch, and sometimes for background music, during soccer practice for a while now. Not anymore. Last Thursday one of my pla...

reflections

Skipping the Skip-nows

Posted on Thursday, May 2nd, 2019 by Will Cox

My children and I have been indulging in Screen-Free Week. We have read books, played games, and talked together. A week earlier they were binge-watching someth...

impulses

Isolation, anxiety, addiction, and escapism. Oh my!

Posted on Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 by Will Cox

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair (1934) After Alexandria Ocasio-Corte...

reflections

Impulses

Posted on Saturday, March 16th, 2019 by William Cox

ACTION REQUIRED, the e-mail demands, NOW. Give money. Sale! One day only! You might like this video. Sign our petition now or terrible things will happen! How w...

communication

AT&T Fell for Media’s Inflated Sense of Self-Importance

Posted on Friday, March 15th, 2019 by William Cox

AT&T was wrong to acquire DirecTV and TimeWarner. Now what?

impulses/parentheses/poem

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Look outside your window. Take off your blinders. See.

communication

Now

Posted on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018 by Will Cox

The iPhone crouches at the corner of my chair, well within reach. The iMac sits on the altar in the living room, but I can worship from afar by picking up the i...

communication

All These Many Voices

Posted on Monday, April 2nd, 2018 by Will Cox

In which I feel relatively free making up statistics because my assertion doesn't care -- and reliable data is hard to find if not nonexistent.

communication

Connectivity

Posted on Saturday, March 31st, 2018 by Will Cox

Respect for others’ time is difficult when you cannot see them. The telephone interrupts dinner, church, conversations. The burden of ignoring the interru...

Books

Escapism

Posted on Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 by Will Cox

I have not been bored since I learned to read. I would read anything and everything; and what with the public libraries and my family’s collection, I didn...

rant

The Browser History Fell Through a Memory Hole in my Pocket

Posted on Sunday, January 28th, 2018 by Will Cox

If not careful, the brogrammers responsible for the attention deficit economy and big data collection will find their work has gone the way of interactive telev...

General

Chaperone on the Field Trip

Posted on Friday, April 10th, 2015 by Will Cox

Without constant external stimulation, we might have to face the anxious terror of consciousness. And so the increasingly urgent demand in a first grader’...

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