The Nintendo generation wants to bond with their children on their old digital stomping grounds. "On the menu of things to do with your kid, it's not the best choice," says MIT Professor and Alone Together author Sherry Turkle. Playing catch in the backyard with Dad is so 20th century.
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Feed SubscriptionHow Google’s Robot Cars Will Revive Sprawl
In the latest installment of Butterfly Effect, we examine Google's autonomous vehicles, seemingly a vision of the future--they'll potentially make commuting a dream and maybe even help kill the Big Three. But for those same reasons, it has the potential set us back by revitalizing suburbs and damaging the economy
Read More »More Machine Than Man Now? Xbox Pushes Kinect’s Gesturing Gameplay To New Level
Activating Jedi powers with motions actually used in the movies? Yes, please! Humans were not meant to experience the exhilaration of life-threatening action while slumped on a couch covered in Doritos crumbs
Read More »Is The Chemical Industry Hiding Information About Our Exposure To Toxic Chemicals?
If you have to ask... Companies are required to submit to the EPA all studies about substantial risk that their chemicals pose to humans
Read More »Syria Follows The Pattern, Shuts Its Internet Down
In what's becoming a predictable move, Syria has shut down Internet access in an attempt to quash the organization of a national uprising, dubbed Children's Friday and inspired in part by a now viral YouTube video of the body of a tortured and murdered 13-year-old boy . As reported by Renesys , a business communications intelligence firm that also chronicled the Net shut-down in Egypt , Syria began to shut its Net access at 6:35 a.m
Read More »Sextuplets – 3 boys and 3 girls – born in Pa.
Abington hospital confirms birth of sextuplets on Wednesday; Children, born premature, being cared for in NICU
Read More »Boys Who Lack Empathy Don’t React To A Fearful Face
Psychopaths can't connect emotionally. Researchers have thought that trait may be connected with an outsized drive for reward and an inability to register fearful expressions in others’ faces
Read More »Reclaim Your Life, One Experience At A Time
From work to play, how can someone get the most out of what they do? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Flow (1990) by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
Read More »Making Haircuts for Kids Fun for Parents
Children's haircuts can be just as uncomfortable for parents as they are for kids. So Joanna Meiseles set out to create a hair salon just for kids
Read More »Facebook Pays For Ad Views, Video Games Are Officially Art, Bendable Phones, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Facebook Pays Users To Watch Ads Facebook
Read More »Reader Mail: May 2011
Money Matters Jason Fried's article about making money [" How I Got Good at Making Money ," March] sparked a lively discussion on Inc.com. "Fantastic article, Jason," wrote Richard Hull, co-founder and CEO of GetInToo.com in Southaven, Mississippi
Read More »Reader Mail: May 2011
Money Matters Jason Fried's article about making money [" How I Got Good at Making Money ," March] sparked a lively discussion on Inc.com.
Read More »Why College Is Not A Bubble (Except For The University Of Phoenix)
The college-is-a-bubble meme just keeps growing . Student-loan debt surpassed credit-card debt for the first time in history last year
Read More »Comic Books for Entrepreneurs
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Read More »Pesticides Make Us Dumber
Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: 7 -- The number of IQ points that children exposed to pesticides in utero fell behind other children. From the department of "science proves the obvious": exposure to neurotoxic pesticides in the womb results in children with lower IQs, according to a study from the University of California at Berkeley
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