“Surveillance Capitalism”

Shoshana Zuboff has written a fascinating analysis of how Google and Facebook’s methods of extracting money from their “free” products involve a very deep and unprecedented seizing of private and personal information from all of us who use Google, Facebook, Microsoft etc products. (It is a hefty book: 691pp –… Continue reading

Crossing the midline…fact or falacy?

What’s the evidence? It seems that the notion that physical activity involving limbs “crossing the midline” is of great neurological benefit may not be based on any experimental evidence.  It looks like it is based on the observation that delayed development in children can result in young children not using… Continue reading