Monthly Archives: August 2013

On leaving academic life

tl;dr version: I’ve left my job as a sociology professor to go work at Intel’s Interaction and Experience Lab. I wish I had a pithy, epic post about the stagnation of the social sciences (which I think may possibly be the case, but holy cats must we over and over and over again romanticize and […]

August 23, 2013 – 10:20 am | By Peter | Posted in Personal | Comments Off on On leaving academic life

Changing the world…but mostly not

A recent July 2013 article in the Guardian caught me eye (and no, not the incredibly depressing one about how the NSA continues to monitor massive swaths of the internet), about how a reporter is using Google Glass to cover protests in Istanbul, is worth a read. I especially liked the use of a quadrocopter, […]

August 14, 2013 – 10:55 am | By Peter | Posted in Change, Technology | Comments Off on Changing the world…but mostly not