Author: Alonzo Texeira
Alonzo Texeira
Alonzo Texeira is an Editor at persuasive2014.org and a technology major at a California university with a sharp eye for where AI and human behavior intersect. A part-time writer with a full-time curiosity, Alonzo covers the ideas and innovations shaping the future of interactive technology
It wasn’t the five hours and thirty-six minutes of phone use per day that stopped me cold. It wasn’t even…
After a long, unremarkable day, a certain kind of silence descends. For a moment, nothing demands your attention as the…
Most people have experienced a moment when something feels a little strange, usually when attempting to decline a newsletter or…
A certain type of book doesn’t make a big announcement. It doesn’t debut with a glamorous launch party or a…
In business and politics, there is a particular kind of moment when someone finally says aloud what everyone in the…
Around the third or fourth scroll through a news feed, there’s a point at which it’s actually hard to tell…
If you pay enough attention, there comes a time when a choice you thought you made seems a little strange.…
A graduate student is crouched over a laptop somewhere on the fifth floor of Dalhousie University’s Goldberg Computer Science Building,…
Something changed somewhere between the first calorie counter and the most recent mood-tracking dashboard. Instead of just observing us, the…
A silent question that hardly anyone in the consumer tech industry wants to address head-on is located somewhere between the…