How Apps Can Cause Us to Take Fewer Risks in the Game of Life
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An "app mentality" or "app consciousness" -- the search for an app for everything, the almost automatic activation of an app and a concomitant reluctance to proceed if an app is lacking -- can be very limiting. And it is especially pernicious in the event that this mentality becomes the dominant mode, the dominant metaphor, for how one leads one's life.
By Howard Gardner, ContributorProfessor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate S..., 2014-04-28