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...guest expert on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and to let my mother see her grandson. Both involved a lot of help from tech people and drool. Yes, I find Meredith Vieira that attractive. But I haven't used it since. That's because Skype breaks the century-old social contract of the phone: we pay close attention while we're talking and zone out while...
...also not interested in talking on the regular phone. We want to TiVo our lives, avoiding real time by texting or e-mailing people when we feel like it. "Skype, which was the fantasy of our childhood, gets you back to sitting there and being available in that old-fashioned way. Our model of what it was to be present to each other, we thought we liked that," she said. "But it turns out that time shifting is our most valued product. This new technology is about control. Emotional control and time control." You'd be shocked by how many...
Thank you, Brian Williams, for your wonderful tribute to the late Walter Cronkite [Dec. 28--Jan. 4]. Every news junkie in America, young or old, has a Cronkite memory that has helped shape the way he or she understands the news. From his onscreen breakdown after JFK's assassination to his jubilation at the fall of the Berlin Wall, Cronkite's deep emotional connection to the world events he covered will always be appreciated and admired...
...show is actually undoing age-old stereotypes and replacing them, for better or worse, with a progressive, and even revolutionary, model of prima donna that is more Lady Gaga than Victoria Gotti ... The trash-talking, overly tanned ladies of Jersey Shore pick fistfights, refuse to cook or clean up and shuffle around in slippers and sweats while the guys in the house preen and put on lip gloss...
Last Spring, as Arthur Marquis started brushing up on the French he'd learned in junior high, the 61-year-old retired lawyer and Long Beach, Calif., resident had trouble discerning where one mellifluous word ended and the next began. So he decided to exercise his auditory skills in much the same way a bodybuilder might zero in on a particular muscle group. His weapon of choice: Posit Science's Brain Fitness software, which promised to hone his hearing, as well as his memory, for $395. (Yes, you heard that right: $395.) After completing the program's 40 hour-long...