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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Water shortages in the western US: Official declaration for the first time?
An article in my news feed described the possibility of a first-time official water shortage declaration for the western US. That's because "man-made lakes that store water supplying millions of people in the U.S. West and Mexico are projected to shrink to historic...
How screenwriters do stories in action, sci-fi, and fantasy
Heard at a session with Marc Bernardin, Naren Shankar, and Emily Carmichael about building worlds in action, sci-fi, and fantasy at the ScreenCraft Writers Summit 2021: How can one keep from building a world not fully thought through? Get read backs. Think...
The Digital Transformation Of The Way Books Are Published And Sold Has Only Just Begun
Via Business Insider:Books are not just "tree flakes encased in dead cow", as a scholar once wryly put it. They are a technology in their own right, one developed and used for the refinement and advancement of thought. And this technology is a powerful, long-lived and...
Why The Digital Revolution Has Not Yet Fulfilled Its Promises
Via Business Insider: Why The Digital Revolution Has Not Yet Fulfilled Its Promises - Business Insider.Do you agree with these points?"...the digital economy, far from pushing up wages across the board in response to higher productivity, is keeping them flat...
Why The Digital Revolution Has Not Yet Fulfilled Its Promises
Via Business Insider: Why The Digital Revolution Has Not Yet Fulfilled Its Promises - Business Insider.Do you agree with these points?"...the digital economy, far from pushing up wages across the board in response to higher productivity, is keeping them flat...
The Rapture Keeps Coming Back
Via Christianity Today: The Rapture Keeps Coming Back | Christianity TodayKey sentences: "...the original resonance of the dispensational Rapture among Christians had more to do with the anxious effects of modernity than with its theological merit. "Signs of the...
The Rapture Keeps Coming Back
Via Christianity Today: The Rapture Keeps Coming Back | Christianity TodayKey sentences: "...the original resonance of the dispensational Rapture among Christians had more to do with the anxious effects of modernity than with its theological merit. "Signs of the...
‘The Glass Cage: Automation and Us’ by Nicholas Carr
Via The Boston Globe: Book review: ‘The Glass Cage: Automation and Us’ by Nicholas Carr - Books - The Boston Globe.Key sentence: "...all of us will see our skills eroded, our intelligence debased, and our work devalued, if we sacrifice human responsibility...