All posts tagged "Text Messaging"

For 13-year-old Coral Fairchild, Snapchat trumps old-style text messaging as the way to socialize with friends in the mobile Internet age.

A tech startup in Seattle has created a robot that serves up piping hot java confections, just by reading text messages.

Teenagers in the United States are texting more than ever before, and they're more likely as well to have a smartphone in their hands, according to a survey released Monday.

[rebelmouse-image 24749148 original_size="849x565" expand=1]I already took a small swipe at this piece by David Brooks, but I thought it deserved a longer examination, because it fits into the millenia-old tradition of sex panics inspired by new technology. Until I heard a lecture about it at the (where else?) Sex Tech conference, I had never realized how much a sex panic inevitably follows the development of a new technology, at least one that broadens people's horizons through geography, art, or communication. It's also funny to me how people forget so easily. Take this line, for instance: