Cathy N. Davidson

‘Now You See It’ June 24, 2011 Cathy N. Davidson, author of the forthcoming book Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking) could safely be deemed a Never-Better, with perhaps a dash of the Ever-Waser. The major technological changes of the past decade…

Cathy Davidson thinks the time has come to reassess our approach … to everything. BY: ANYA KAMENETZ Read the full article.  

Social Media: Savior of Mankind or a Peril Parents don’t quite understand the impact of social media on their children. It is a subject of major debate. We should make the most of the new age of information says Prof. Vivek Wadhwa

Reblogged from The Herald Sun – Week’s End Cathy Davidson, internet provocateur, co-founder of Duke University’s HASTAC (pronounced “haystack,” short for the “Humanities, Arts, Science Technology, Advanced Collaboratory” at Duke University) and sometime Herald-Sun guest columnist, has been nominated to the National Council on the Humanities. We are impressed, but not surprised. If the Obama administration…

Vivek Wadhwa’s BusinessWeek article now appears on MSNBC. Wadhwa discusses how the Internet will not rot your brain—or those of your children. Web communications will better connect us all with the world. He’s interviewed Cathy Davidson who dismisses the doomsday scenarios one hears on a daily basis. She says we don’t need new research to…