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My 1995 main stage TEDTalk from 1995 was on a cassette tape. In those days, only audio was recorded. A friend digitized it and I thought it would be fun to post here. When David Letterman had a late night show in the 90’s, he always featured a Top Ten list. In 1995, the technology Continue reading "Pioneering Multimedia Top Ten Insights, a 1995 main stage TEDTalk by Linda Stone"
In 1996, I was working at Microsoft in Seattle and teaching a graduate student seminar at NYU in the Interactive Telecommunications Program. I noticed that at Microsoft, some of my colleagues had two screens, but each screen only had one thing running; either email, a spreadsheet, or a word processor. At NYU, students had one Continue reading "Does Constant Multitasking Lead to Digital Dementia?"
It turns out humming offers many health benefits. The benefits include: relief from stress and anxiety, decrease in heart rate, increase in lymphatic circulation, increase in nasal nitric oxide, and vagus nerve stimulation. A few months ago, I was on a call with one of my favorite neuroscientists. I had been reviewing a set of Continue reading "Is it Time to Keep a Kazoo Next to Your Computer?"
Linda Stone spoke with NPR s Manoush Zomorodi on a recent episode of Zomorodi s podcast, Body Electric. Stone coined the terms, Screen Apnea and Email Apnea in 2008, after noticing she was holding her breath or shallow breathing while working on personal technologies. She looked around, and noticed most people were doing what she was doing: Continue reading "Screen Apnea: Our Bodies on Personal…
In one of the best series yet on technology and how our bodies and minds are taxed by our current habits, Manoush Zomorodi, interviews a variety of experts. Manoush kicks off the series with a challenge to NPR listeners to join a Columbia University/NPR study. Participants are tasked with getting up and moving for five Continue reading "NPR’s The Body Electric Investigates How Personal…
Originally posted by Wade Roush at Xconomy.com in 2014. Linda Stone’s Antidote to “Quantified Self” Tech: The Essential Self The Quantified Self movement emerged in the late 2000s in response to an absence: the lack of useful data about our bodies as we move through the day. Before the QS era, an EKG could show Continue reading "“Linda Stone’s Antidote to Quantified Self: The Essential Self”"
In 2007, I made some observations and named what I was seeing in a 2008 Huffington Post article. I described a phenomenon I initially called email apnea, and later referred to, interchangeably as email apnea or screen apnea. This followed observations and research I’d done in the 1990’s on attention, when I coined the phrase, Continue reading "Screen Apnea in the NYTimes"
According to James Nestor, the author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, “We get most of our energy from our breath, not from food or drink. Our bodies process about 30 pounds of air every day, compared to only a few pounds of food and water. There’s a reason why you can Continue reading "30 pounds of Air Every Day"
I don t know the origin of this story. It was sent to me by Lee Stein. In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for Continue reading "A Story"
My blog frequently discusses attention and also embodiment. And these themes play an important role in Sharon Salzberg’s newest book, Real Love. I found this to be a particularly lovely and comforting read, filled with stories and sweet practices. 1. What prompted you to write a book on love? In your wildest dreams, what impact Continue reading "Sharon Salzberg Talks About Real Love"