March 30, 2012

The Story of Technology

is a monochromatic, "I'm not quite sure what it does, but it is new and shiny."

Technology is better used to help tell a story.

Teaching technical analysis of neuroimaging data is a story I frequently tell. A digital recording of a relevant talk is easy to share. The person I'm mentoring can watch it at their speed. I do not give the same foundational lecture again (and again).

Sometimes the ideas are better communicated in the journal article format. The digital version of journal article is far easier to share than the paper version.

Technology is better suited to facilitate the telling of already great story, rather than be the story itself.

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