Digital Mindfulness

In this episode, my guest, Jack Hooper from technology company Doppel, and his team have created just such a wearable device from a body of research they are calling Empathic Technology. Having just raised seed finance for their wearable product from their recent Kickstarter campaign, I talked with Jack about their campaign, their new product and where he thinks this new area of research can eventually go.

How do we thrive online? In this episode, the author, TEDster, philosopher, Fellow of the Saïd Business School and The School of Life In London Tom Chatfield, and I speak about his varied perspectives on how we can thrive in a digital age. In this amazing, wide-ranging talk, Tom and I discuss how our interactions with technology can be made more meaningful by embracing the innate qualities that make us uniquely human.

In this episode of the Digital Mindfulness podcast I talk with the psychologist and TED speaker Jocelyn Brewer about Digital Nutrition. Digital Nutrition is her framework for ways in which people, and particularly parents, can ensure their children live healthier lives with digital technologies. Imagine if we were able to navigate our consumption of digital technologies with a clear understanding of which services had a positive effect on our bodies and our minds and those which were less so.

In this episode of the Digital Mindfulness podcast I talk with the psychologist and TED speaker Jocelyn Brewer about Digital Nutrition. Digital Nutrition is her framework for ways in which people, and particularly parents, can ensure their children live healthier lives with digital technologies. Imagine if we were able to navigate our consumption of digital technologies with a clear understanding of which services had a positive effect on our bodies and our minds and those which were less so.

In this episode, I speak with the author, thinker and technologist Linda Stone about the various ways technology can enhance the quality of our lives. In this fascinating discussion, Linda explains from her very unique perspective, how technology can degrade the quality of our lives and what we can do to manage that.

In this episode of Digital Mindfulness, I speak with the Educator and Research Psychologist, Dr. Larry Rosen about his work and his perspective on the psychology of technology.

During the time Digital Mindfulness has been live, one thing has concerned speakers more than any other topic we have spoken about; that in an age of constant digital connection, the available time for our own for our own thoughts and our own company is eroding by the day. The human need for solitude, very different to loneliness, is essential and helps people to creatively process complex thoughts, increase intimacy and bring peace of mind.

Smoking, sex, food, alcohol, tobacco, narcotics; these are all things we know are addictive in some way but the addiction to the Internet?

In this very special episode I talk with Dr. Kimberly Young about the reasons why people become addicted to the Internet and what they can do about it.

What does it mean to be a Mindful Cyborg? What are the effects of mindfully approaching digital experiences? In this episode, Klint Finley* joins us. A long-time writer for Wired Magazine, he is also one of the hosts of the popular podcast Mindful Cyborgs, which focuses on “mindfulness, cyborgs, contemplative computing, bio/lifehacking, quantified self netocracy and digital duality”.

In this episode, I talk with UC Irvine Professor Gloria Mark about her work with digital distraction and attention.