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With smart phones and Google, we have a world of knowledge at our fingertips. With mobile phones and driver monitoring, we are never really out of touch. How does this change our ideas about knowledge and solitude?

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by purpleLightning March 28, 2008 9:34 AM PDT
As far as knowledge goes, regardless of your tool of choice - whether by basic human recall or by tech-assisted recall - it always depends on personal delivery. And tech can certainly help facilitate basic human recall. Case in point - during a lunch conversation with friends visiting with their twin preschool girls, discussion somehow turned to state flags. Using the iPhone, I looked up several state flags and showed them to the girls. I learned a few weeks later that the girls went on to inform others of what the state flags looked like, iPhone free.
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by avantivigg March 30, 2008 10:48 AM PDT
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by private-internet July 18, 2008 11:24 AM PDT
good idea but with the current Internet infrastructure will you feel so secure if you know that you and everyone else in the world can monitor your teenage? mm .. I don't think so .. that is why privacy issues need to be address not with policies but with better design
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