You may have thought that the headline should read “Social Media Changes Minds” because of all the wonderful things that social media adds to our lives (I’ll let you determine what wonderful things it does for you). But across the pond there’s concern that social media is actually changing the brains of young users.
We Have the Brains
At Do sandals and ponytails really hold back Linux? former Massachusetts chief information officer Peter Quinn complains that the Linux community is unprofessional and that this is holding back more widespread adoption of Linux. I’m sure he really believes that.
Blue Genes, Brains, IBM and a Bunch of Teraflops
IBM and EPFl (International Business Machines and L’Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne for acronym impaired) have committed to a joint two-year project to build a computer-simulated human brain, mapping the intricate workings of the neocortex.