I recently got a smart sleep mask from Kickstarter. I was not expecting to end up with the ability to read strangers' brainwaves and send them electric impulses in their sleep. But here we are. The mask was from a small Chinese research company, very cool hardware -- EEG brain monitoring, electrical muscle stimulation around the eyes, vibration, heating, audio. The app was still rough around the…
Over the last two decades, the internet brought the world's information to our fingertips. But our attention didn't scale with it. There is always something new to read, react to, respond to, learn about, etc. We’ve accepted the consequences of this as “hard facts” of modern life: Missed Opportunities a. Due to the volume of information available exceeding what we can process. Things inevitably…