Today's tech helps mostly with retrospective or semantic memory, events or facts we've encountered in the past. Prospective memory is different. It's our ability to remember to remember something -- like stopping to grab the dry cleaning on the way home.

In the age of YouTube and cameraphones, we're increasingly inundated with moving images. But the animated GIF lets us stop and ponder a single moment in the stream, to resee something that otherwise would zip by unnoticed.

The long-prophesied phenomenon of everyday devices talking to one another -- and us -- online is becoming a reality.

Geolocation, social book-reading, and the "Internet of things" -- personal objects that talk to us and each other online -- will all provoke widespread flip-outs.

Because Pinterest encourages collecting photos based on a theme, this in turn encourages categorical thinking. If you see one picture of a guitar, it's just a guitar; but when you see 80 of them lined up you start to see guitarness.

Our willingness to have our basic beliefs overturned is a sign of intellectual health.

Salman Khan approaches education with the mindset of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur: Make something cool and people will use it.

As artists in all media go social--from novelists to painters to musicians--the very practice of their craft is becoming public.

The cognitive perils of having lots of open windows on our computers have been somewhat overblown. It's not always bad for us -- and sometimes it can be very good.

The fight over copying physical objects heats up.

Playing in imaginary worlds breeds practical creativity.

The rebound theory backlash.

Many computers are governed by skeuomorphs -- bits of design that are based on old-fashioned, physical objects. Skeuomorphs are hobbling innovation by lashing designers to metaphors of the past.

Critics sniff that photo filters are mere retro-chic nostalgia. That's partly true, but it misses the creative urge here--and how filters affect what gets photographed.

"Print-on-demand" will keep paper books alive -- by allowing them to be much weirder.

A researcher grimly concluded that students aren't assessing information sources on their own merit--they're putting too much trust in the machine.

A fraction of the public are sensually predisposed to hate the sounds and sights of twitchy, leg-tapping people.

A new generation of web entrepreneurs has discovered the joys of charging users cold, hard cash.

Big ideas poke their noses into the world very slowly, easing gradually into view.

We are witnessing an emerging culture of "sousveillance," the monitoring of events not by those above (surveiller in French) but by citizens, from below (sous-).