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The Speed Of Life

August 10, 2011

 

Interview with Vincent Poscente, author of the book The Age of Speed: Learning to Thrive in a More-Faster-Now World

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Life seems to be moving at a faster and faster pace and often that increasing speed of life is viewed as a negative.

 

Vincent Poscente:
Speed is vilified - "haste makes waste, slow and steady wins the race" but I don't know how many races people win by going slow.
 
Vincente Poscente

How We Use Electronic Media

August 1, 2011

 

Interview with Thomas Cooper, PhD author of the book Fast Media, Media Fast: How to Clear Your Mind and Invigorate Your Life In an Age of Media Overload

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Technology has changed our lives but the change is not all good for all people, for some it has become an addiction.

 

Thomas Cooper PhD:
People unable to leave their cell phone, to leave their hand held device, people unable to stop watching sports every night, those kinds of media addictions allow us to become the first culture to spend more time with machines than with each other.
 
Thomas Cooper, PhD

Coping With New Technology

July 6, 2011

 

Interview with Brian X. Chen, author of the book Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future--and Locked Us In

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Whenever new technology has appeared there have always been people to condemn it.

 

Brian X. Chen:
All the way back to Socrates, Socrates feared the pen he thought that writing things down would make us not be able to memorize things ever again.
 
Brian X. Chen

How Technology Changes How We Live

June 1, 2011

 

Interview with Jason Ohler, author of the book Digital Community, Digital Citizen

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Ever since cellphones became available people have complained they are a big distraction.

 

Jason Ohler:
Well I think most people have that visceral experience where they’re talking to somebody and a text comes in and they say, “I gotta take this.”
 
Jason Ohler

Internet Strategies To Make Money

May 10, 2011

 

Interview with March Ostrofsky, author of the book Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet

 

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Mike Carruthers:
How do you make money on the Internet? There are a lot of misconceptions.

 

Marc Ostrofsky:
Everyone thinks you have to create the new Facebook or Google or Yahoo, that’s not the case the game is to create new income for yourself whether it’s $100 a day or $1000 a day.
 
Marc Ostrofsky

Using Technology To Save Money

January 11, 2011

 

Interview with Ellie Kay, author of the book The 60-Minute Money Workout: An Easy Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your Finances into Shape

 

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Mike Carruthers:
The beginning of the year is a good time to examine just how you’re spending your money.

 

Ellie Kay:
You ought to re-evaluate your automobile policy, you ought to re-evaluate your homeowner’s policy, and I also think you ought to re-evaluate your cell phone policy.
 
Ellie Kay

Problems With The Internet

January 5, 2011

Interview with William Davidow, author of the book OVERCONNECTED: The Promise and Threat of the Internet

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Few people would argue that the Internet has tremendous benefits.

 

William Davidow:
But it also made the financial crisis of 2008 much worse, it was involved in Wiki Leaks, it is involved in the loss of our privacy.

 
William Davidow

How Google Has Changed Everything

November 22, 2010

 

Interview with Ken Auletta, author of the book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Google as a company has changed everything.

 

Ken Auletta:
All of us have been affected by this company, we don’t search for information we Google it – it’s a verb and it’s changed all of our lives.
 
Ken Auletta

Breaking The Rules At Work

November 4, 2010

 

Interview with Josh Klein, author of the book Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results

 

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Mike Carruthers:
The typical workplace is not keeping up with and effectively using technology.

 

Josh Klein:
So your 12 year old can go online and get more information faster, more accurately, and collaborate better with his peers than you can in the office – that’s a problem.

 
Josh Klein

How Do You Waste Time?

October 12, 2010

 

Interview with Stever Robbins, author of the book Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More (Quick & Dirty Tips)

 

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Mike Carruthers:
What is it that really keeps people from being productive?

 

Stever Robbins:
One of the biggest things that keeps people from being productive is they don’t know what they should be doing at any given moment. So they do something that feels productive that isn’t actually helping them reach their goals.
 
Stever Robbins

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