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In developing the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb), a digital archive and search engine for dream research, I have been acutely aware that I possess no formal training in computer science or internet...
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The Technology of Dreaming
“For myself I never found need of more than four or five hours’ sleep in the twenty-four. I never dream.” So said the famously hard-working inventor Thomas Edison in 1921 in his Diary and Sundry...
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What Kinds of Technology Do People Dream About Most Frequently?
The past one hundred years of human history have been dramatically transformed by the invention of several new technologies, each of which has impacted people’s lives in profound and complicated ways....
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Dreaming in the Digital Age: The Impact of New Database Technologies on Dream...
For several years I’ve been inspired and guided by an admittedly idealistic vision of future technology in the study of dreams: One day, everyone in the world will have an easy and private way to...
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Nightmares of a Smart Home
Dreams from Germans in the 1930’s highlight the danger of new home technologies. I have always been a strong advocate for the creative potentials of dreaming and its capacity to envision future...
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What Are the Ethics of Dreaming?
When people think about ethics, they usually focus on the evaluation of good or bad behaviors in the waking state. But what about the ethical status of the one-third of our lives that we spend in...
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The Best Technology for Studying Dreams
It’s hard to beat the simple practice of keeping a dream journal. Many exciting new tools are being developed to help us understand the nature and functions of our dreams. For example, researchers are...
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The Ethical Challenges of Dream Video Technologies
New technologies are making it possible to use brain data to create video reconstructions of people’s dreams while they sleep. Is this thrilling, terrifying, or both? Here’s how it works. Researchers...
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