Description: some companies are adopting policies aimed at weaning employees from their electronic devices.
1. Do you feel organizations would gain benefits by limited their employees' exposure to mobile devices? Why or Why not?
2. What is your best reason or evidence that mobile devices affect either productivity or non productivity in the workplace?
This entry was posted in smart phones, Work-Life Balance and tagged Business Travel, productivity, smart phones on December 31, 2012 by nevis63.
Description: Will a computer ever successfully stand in for a skill that is based not simply on a vast fund of knowledge but also on more intangible factors like intuition?
Just how special is Dr. Dhaliwal's talent? More to the point, what can he do that a computer cannot? Will a computer ever successfully stand in for a skill that is based not simply on a vast fund of knowledge but also on more intangible factors like intuition?
1. Do you feel computers will eventually do most of the medical diagnostics needed in the medical world? Why or Why not?
2. Is this type of artificial intelligence more prone to use expert systems or neural networks to achieve best results?
This entry was posted in Artificial intelligence, Expert Systems, Neural Networks and tagged IS in medicine on December 4, 2012 by nevis63.
Description: A study from Stanford University, published Wednesday, wrestles with a new question: How is technology affecting their happiness and emotional development?
The research raises as many questions as it seeks to answer, as the scientists readily acknowledge. That is because the research was based on an online survey taken by more than 3,400 girls, a sample that may well not be representative of the larger population and, because the responses are self-reported, are not subject to follow-up or verification by the researchers.
How is technology affecting their happiness and emotional development?
Do you have confidence in this studies finding? Why or Why not?
This entry was posted in Cloud Computing, Uncategorized and tagged Apple on December 3, 2012 by nevis63.
Cell phones are driving friends away!
1. Do you feel cell phone usage has a detrimental affect on personal relationship development? Why or Why Why not?
2. Should young people be regulated as to how much usage of their cell phones they are allowed? Who should be doing the regulating?
This entry was posted in smart phones, social impacts of technology, texting and tagged regulation, smart phones, texting on December 3, 2012 by nevis63.