Tag: technology

Thomas Hospital in Fairhope performed the first cryoablation to cure breast cancer in the state.

If districts are formally asserting that digital platforms harm children, why are elements of that same ecosystem embedded into the mandatory structure of the school day?

HB347 recognizes that our legal framework must evolve alongside technology. The bill strengthens consumer protections related to illicit material, clarifies enforcement mechanisms, and ensures meaningful consequences for those who profit from or facilitate this kind of harm.

Alabama has always understood that freedom comes with responsibility. Applying that principle to the digital lives of children is not radical. It’s overdue.

The main reason I’m writing is because the world is going to go nuts someday. And I mean totally, flipping nuts.

I still resent rote memorization. Yet, I resent myself more for treating my memory like that of a machine, swift to learn techniques that helped me forget soon after the momentary need. 

"Adolescence" blames the manosphere for the knife crime of a young teen. But is the rise of screens and technology the real culprit?

Bucking today's smartphone society is harder than one might realize.

Childhood itself is at stake here. The playing fields of the imagination are being rapidly replaced by digitalized games, social media, and the artifice of screens.   

When it comes to AI and future technologies, we don’t have to passively accept what the powers-that-be impose upon us. We can and should follow the Amish model of publicly debating their human value.

So I've bought a flip phone. I’m going to commit to using this phone for a month. Just to see what happens. I’ll probably fail after six minutes and resume an intimate relationship with an Apple device. But I’d like to see if I can rediscover my own life.

Our schools need to ditch the idea that technology can replace actual knowledge before they create a whole generation of functional and cultural illiterates.

Invasive technology sounds really cool until some bureaucrat realizes that they can use it for their agenda.

He is playing on his phone when he asks, “What was it like before smartphones?”

What happened to children playing outside for hours and being creative while exploring and learning new things?

There is magic in old things. You can’t find this charm in glowing monitors or phone screens.

If I was granted one wish, I’d want a time machine to go back before technology sucked all the fun and quality out of life.

Apple is urging users to update their software on most devices after discovering a possible security vulnerability.

“Cybercrime has been rising for decades, but the pandemic and remote users working from home have created the perfect storm for criminal hacking.”