by Leroy Hurt | Dec 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Instapundit and Smithsonian Magazine: …Jaron Lanier and the ideology he helped create, Web 2.0 futurism, digital utopianism, which he now calls “digital Maoism,” indicting “internet intellectuals,” accusing giants like Facebook and Google of being “spy agencies.”...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: This Christmas will be characterized by society’s evolution toward high-tech gadgets; an evolution that has not bypassed children. For dozens of years, toy manufacturers have not only had to adapt to this technological revolution, but they...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Patheos: Born of Jewish parents, then raised Protestant, Stossel is not steeled against religion—he just hasn’t experienced the spark of faith in his own life. By his own admission, he’s gone to churches and temples; but he just hasn’t been convinced that...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Arts & Letters Daily and American Scholar: Ingersoll emerged as the leading figure in what historians of American secularism consider the golden age of freethought—an era when immigration, industrialization, and science, especially Charles Darwin’s theory of...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Popular Mechanics: …researchers led by Washington State University mechanical engineering professor Amit Bandyopadhyay have shown that future moon explorers might be able to fabricate new parts simply by pouring that regolith into the hopper of a 3D printer. The...
