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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
An approach to critical thinkingVia Arts and Letters Daily, an article describing philosophical heuristics we all can use to improve our own critical thinking. Heuristics are techniques to help you solve problems or make decisions. You know them as rules of thumb,...
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The dark side of the digital world
Via Utne Reader: Quit Facebook Day, as an expression of the desire to kill one’s networked self, illustrates the need for a language to talk about these tensions, to talk about the darker aspects of the relationship between platforms and individuals. It is obvious...
The Robots Are Coming — from Google
Via Top Tech News: In the past six months, Google has acquired seven robotics companies and the search giant is now looking to build its own robots.…Google may be quiet when it comes to the robots, previously being worked on in secret, but based on the companies that...
The Robots Are Coming — from Google
Via Top Tech News: In the past six months, Google has acquired seven robotics companies and the search giant is now looking to build its own robots.…Google may be quiet when it comes to the robots, previously being worked on in secret, but based on the companies that...
Your New Robot Overlords
Via Reason: The rise and spread of intelligent machines has led to increasing income inequality and anemic job growth. And this dynamic is likely to be permanent.…The American economy is becoming a "hyper-meritocracy" in which workers will either be big earners or big...
Your New Robot Overlords
Via Reason: The rise and spread of intelligent machines has led to increasing income inequality and anemic job growth. And this dynamic is likely to be permanent.…The American economy is becoming a "hyper-meritocracy" in which workers will either be big earners or big...
Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
Via Instapundit and NYTimes.com: The first commercial version of the new kind of computer chip is scheduled to be released in 2014. Not only can it automate tasks that now require painstaking programming — for example, moving a robot’s arm smoothly and efficiently —...