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A New Vision Balancing Communications Technology and Time to Think

Vision blog 9 7There’s surely no question that life has speeded up of late. In the minds of many, it seems to be linked with the technology of delivering more and more easily accessible information. We have long been told that we are in the Information Age.

About 20 years ago I interviewed the late Neil Postman, who had written Amusing Ourselves to Death and later ...More...

Causes of Conflict

European Envoy to Mid-East Comments on Annapolis Prospects

The Reuters section of our main website at Vision has a timely update on the Annapolis talks from European Union High Representative Javier Solana's perspective. 

His itinerary for his current visit to the Middle East is ...More...

First Followers

THE FIRST CHRISTMAS: It was later than you think!

Historians and theologians have for many years sought to link the birth of Jesus Christ with December 25. Yet all their51 vuiPYfmL. SL500 AA300 hoto courtesy of British Academy efforts to find support in ancient records have failed to provide genuine evidence. The internal evidence ...More...

Family Matters

Critical Thinking: Beware That Peaceful, Easy Feeling

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In the last few posts we've been talking about some of the ways our thinking lets us down when we're chugging along on intuition, or System 1, as Nobel Prize-winning ...More...

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