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Technophobia The psychological impact of Information Technology
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Technophobia The psychological impact of Information TechnologyTechnophobia The psychological impact of Information Technology

In his book The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman describes how technology enables increasing functionality which in turn increases
complexity. He cites the example of a digital watch having far more functions than a traditional analog watch (stop-watch, alarm,
countdown timer, etc.) and yet being far more complicated to set the time (the original function).
 
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Tags: watch, countdown, timer, being, alarm, Technology, Technophobia, Information, impact
Cause For Alarm
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Cause For AlarmCause For Alarm

Spindler's latest romantic suspense moves fast and takes no prisoners. Kate and Richard Ryan, the perfect couple (money, good looks, successful power careers, great house on Lake Pontchartrain), adopt a baby girl to make their lives complete. Unbeknownst to them, the birth mother, Julianna, a young woman on the run from her ex-lover, CIA contract-killer John Powers, is more than a tad unhinged. Unable to tear herself from the beautiful lives of the Ryans, Julianna falls for Richard and becomes his mistress.
 
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Tags: Julianna, Richard, lives, ex-lover, contract-killer, Cause, Alarm
Alarm Call
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Alarm CallAlarm Call

Oz Blackstone didn't go looking for fame: it jumped out of an alleyway and mugged him with a fist full of high denomination notes. Movie stardom, wealth, a successful marriage - Oz is standing on the brink of the Seriously Big Time and life just seems to keep lining up the cherries... He should have known it couldn't stay that good for that long - don't the juiciest fruit always go sour?
 
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Tags: cherries, should, lining, seems, Seriously, Alarm, brink, cherries