The computer encourages that second-to-second dopamine rush as you go from click to click.
In another study involving fourth year medical students, participants reported that access to information on a handheld computer encouraged use of information, improved learning and increased confidence in decision-making [ 8].
But computers encourage children to split into noisy little groups.
Computers encourage the notion of near-infinite malleability.
Many newer computers encourage that the user makes backup copies of all software on it when it is purchased.
We are inspired by Sherry Turkle's book, The Second Self (first published in 1984), in which she argued that the intelligence of computers encourages children to revise their ideas about animacy and thinking.
A federal indictment of Mr. Keys said that he provided Anonymous with login information for Tribune Company computers, encouraged the hackers to log on to the company's server and damage it, and helped the group in an attack that allowed them to alter a feature on the newspaper's Web site.
I doubt that learning to write a standardized test essay, especially one written for a computer, will encourage any student to explore the beauty of the written word.
But its leader, Dr. Danny McCormick, an assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School, suggested that the ease of ordering tests and receiving results by computer may encourage doctors to order more tests than they would if they had to get results by phone and interpret blurry fax images.
Many daily tasks – reading, driving, typing on a smart phone, and working on a computer screen – encourage us to sustain an unblinking gaze.
Phones and computers fundamentally encourage, even demand, a constant cycle of stimulation and response.
