'cultural shifts' tagged blog posts in My Story

  We are all a series of contradictions. We claim we all have these really unique and distinct identities, yet we all wear jeans that are likely within a few shades of each other. We claim we are contributing members of society—productive, and eager to learn—yet we spend countless class periods and library sessions scrolling through Facebook albums. We say don’t like to...

Technology & Gen Y: together since day 1

“I can’t walk for five minutes alone without being on my phone.”

In the beginning, there was man and there was technology. They were two distinctive things.  At first, technology was scientific - impersonal and complicated; functional and grey; raw and brutal. Today, there is little segregation between our lives on and off-line.  Technology is as habitualized...

From http://www.onesixtyfourth.com/category/featured/. Published 25 Nov 2011

Black Friday is fully under way.  And, in the run-up to it over the past two weeks it seemed that Black Friday had become a holiday in and of itself.  A follow on to Thanksgiving; a bit like Boxing Day is to Christmas in Britain.  Will Gray Thursday and Cyber Monday soon achieve the same noteworthy status?

In a...