Laurence Mesirow
I am a writer who has been concerned about the effects of modern technology on human living environments and human behavior for many years.
Becoming A Ghost Of Oneself Through Technology
One of the newest technological rages today is Pokemon-Go. Young people use the GPS on their smartphones to go out into the external world to find virtual creatures called Pokemon that they capture,...
Why It’s Not So Great To Become A Robot
Implicit in this column is not only the idea that people are gradually becoming robots, but also, that it is not a good thing that they become robots. There has been some discussion...
The Sanitized World Of Virtual Art
The extent of applications of technology in our modern world seems to have no bounds. One particularly interesting group of applications deals with the ability to create within a virtual world of experience....
Making A Good Impression On The World
One of the most fundamental concepts that has been discussed in this column is that people need organic imprints to feel fully alive and to prepare for death. An organic imprint need not...
Behaving Like A Robot With Other People
In writing about the effects of modern technology on human behavior, there has been a focus in this column on how modern technology directly affects the user. How does the experience of the...
Mapping Out Moral Behavior
The word map is frequently used when we want to create a visual image of the physical relationship between different phenomena. When we use it for the environments in which we live, it...
Losing One’s Touch For Touching
The human sense of touch seems to be under ongoing attack by modern technological innovation. In some cases, the experience of touching stimuli is reduced as in swiping one’s fingers over or typing...
Becoming A Part Of The Internet of Dogs
The main focus of this column has been the effects of modern technology on living environments and on humans and their behavior. My purpose has been to show how increasingly people are no...
Turning Poems And Plays Into Data
The pervasive penetration of modern technology is now extending into areas of human life that one would never have associated with modern technology. I have talked in the past of the importance of protecting...
Pinpointing A Cause Of Student Problems Today
My good friend, Martin Hardeman, Associate Professor of American History at Eastern Illinois University, was expressing frustration about his students during a telephone conversation we were having. He was discussing how his students use...