As we use what the sociologist Daniel Bell has called our “intellectual technologies”—the tools that extend our mental rather than our physical capacities—we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies. The mechanical clock, which came into common use in the 14th century, provides a compelling example. In Technics and Civilization, the historian and cultural critic Lewis Mumford described how the clock “disassociated time from human events and helped create the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences.” The “abstract framework of divided time” became “the point of reference for both action and thought.”

The clock’s methodical ticking helped bring into being the scientific mind and the scientific man. But it also took something away. As the late MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum observed in his 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, the conception of the world that emerged from the widespread use of timekeeping instruments “remains an impoverished version of the older one, for it rests on a rejection of those direct experiences that formed the basis for, and indeed constituted, the old reality.” In deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise, we stopped listening to our senses and started obeying the clock.

via Is Google Making Us Stupid? – The Atlantic (July/August 2008).

I was reading articles online, and that got my attention. o o

As a person that tends to ignore the clock quite often, it got me thinking. Perhaps it’s normal that I don’t sleep or eat in a “regular” basis.

If we think about it, why should we eat and sleep just because “it’s time for doing so” ? It sounds far more normal to eat and sleep when you have to, and not because of “time”, but because your body is asking for it.

If you guys are looking for an interesting read, read that whole article.

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” Last year, Page told a convention of scientists that Google is “really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale.”

Can you say Skynet? I can xD

I have developed a craving for mint flavored chocolate >”<
There are to brands that I can buy with-in the camps:

1) After Eight [Book store]

2) Cadbury’s Mint [Residence convenience store]

I like the After Eight more, because of the presentation.
But the Convenience store is closer to me,and open longer.

It bugs me to know I’m spending money in consumables such as Mint Chocolate, but I can’t help it . . . I wake up for a few seconds at night, to put another little mint chocolate square in my mouth!

And today I woke up with a craving for more, but I ran out of it.

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Must go downstairs to the store.

Recorded at Yonge & Eglinton on Friday the 13th.
I added the audio later, that’s why my lips are not in sync with it.
I used spanish because I thought it would be funnier xD