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By Carol Phillips* One of the biggest myths about Millennials is that they are all digital natives, blogging and tweeting their way through life. The truth is a bit more nuanced. True, Millennials are some of the most avid USERS of mobile and Internet technology. The age of first cell phone is dropping rapidly and [...]

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The red areas indicate regions of activation in the functional MRI scanner during the particular task – reading (1st photo) or web searching (2nd photo). By Ines Schinazi Technology is obviously changing the way we speak, communicate, interact, and relate to each other. But is technology also changing our brains? Dr. Gary Small thinks so. [...]

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By Rachel Glickhouse I “met” Eline Kullock through a social networking site. She asked me to write a guest post for the blog. I found Eline to be extremely interesting, intelligent, and a hard worker (she is the President of Grupo Foco in Sao Paulo). So here I am, “guest blogging…” People like to talk [...]

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by Ludmilla Figueiredo Google Maps helps me reach my destination. I put together a nostalgic photo album on Flickr. I call to my sister, who has locked herself in her room, while chatting on MSN. I share news through messages that contain a lot of exclamations (revealing my state of extreme happiness or sometimes expressing [...]

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Mauro Segura I remember a few years ago, during management training, an instructor asked each of us to bring in an image that had spoken to us in adolescence and still remained present in our mind today. Most people brought in pictures of their family, of their first boyfriend or girlfriend, of their dog, or [...]

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Mauro Segura I look around, and realize how much new technologies are slowly but surely, invading schools and Universities. My son studies “Engineering and Production” at the University “UFRJ.” His Economics Professor Maura Montella, asked her class to complete a project, in which the finished product would be a video about the black market.

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Inês Schinazi New York City. Underground morning rush, headphones glued to every pair of earlobes in sight. Stuck waiting for the next train. It’s like a silent film, except this time the live music plays in our heads. It can be whatever we want it to be. Personalized soundtrack. While we imagine the inner dialogue, [...]

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