A few links

I only have a few minutes to blog right now; I'm about to turn off my computer for the evening (that always feels somewhat liberating after a day like I've had -- even if much of today's surfing was for enjoyment).

In my surfing, I came across a couple of articles whose content relates pretty well to some of the topics we've been talking about in this program. (As soon as I typed the word "surfing," Zemata suggested some photos of people on surfboards... I'll go ahead and include one, just to prove the point that computers don't always understand us so well.)
Image via Wikipedia
First link is to an L.A. Times story about how we're all "infovores":
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-biederman19-2008jul19,0,3327488.story?track=ntothtml

The next link is to a New Yorker article about the difficulty of conversing with computers:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_seabrook

And here's a Wired article about how human memory is being supplanted:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-10/st_thompson

All right, that's enough info inflow for tonight... I gotta dance!