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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Progress, decline, and the gospelVia Arts and Letters Daily, a review of Stephen B. Smith's Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow(hardcover, Kindle) that makes for an interesting read. Does modernity really afflict...
Are we already in the Matrix?Via Arts and Letters Daily, a new world where we are defined by information and data trails we leave. Focus: "Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies, and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so...
3D printing will explode in 2014, thanks to the expiration of key patents
Via Quartz: …not all 3D printing technologies are created equal. The revolution in manufacturing that was supposed to come with cheap, desktop 3D printers hasn’t materialized because, frankly, the models they produce are basically novelties, handy for giving you a...
Project leadership
Via PMI: A project manager creates objectives; the project leader influences people and events to ensure those are met A project manager formulates plans; the project leader provides the vision and enthusiasm to achieve them A project manager monitors results; the...
Project leadership
Via PMI: A project manager creates objectives; the project leader influences people and events to ensure those are met A project manager formulates plans; the project leader provides the vision and enthusiasm to achieve them A project manager monitors results; the...
Will we ever want to have sex with robots?
Via BBC: "…if you are trying to solve the problem of care and companionship with a robot, you are not trying to solve it with the people you need to solve it with - friends, family, community." … "We may think we are only making robots," she told this year's meeting...
Will we ever want to have sex with robots?
Via BBC: "…if you are trying to solve the problem of care and companionship with a robot, you are not trying to solve it with the people you need to solve it with - friends, family, community." … "We may think we are only making robots," she told this year's meeting...
More Light | Books and Culture
Via Books and Culture: In contrast to the idea that all scientists are non-religious, she reveals a substantial rate of self-declared religious affiliation. Almost half, or 47 percent, declare some kind of faith commitment, far more than a conflict paradigm might...