“In other sad news, Google “search anthropologist” Dan Russell told The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal that 90 percent of American Google users do not know how to use CTRL or Command F to find a word on a page.” —
College students stumped by search engines, research finds
Seriously?
“It may not feel like it, but 2012 has been the greatest year in the history of the world. That sounds like an extravagant claim, but it is borne out by evidence. Never has there been less hunger, less disease or more prosperity. The West remains in the economic doldrums, but most developing countries are charging ahead, and people are being lifted out of poverty at the fastest rate ever recorded. The death toll inflicted by war and natural disasters is also mercifully low. We are living in a golden age.” — The Spectator
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“Everything needs to line up, he said. He uses the analogy of walking through a forest and you suddenly glimpse that view where all the trees happen to align perfectly and you can glimpse an unobstructed opening. That’s how he knows when to pursue a project.” — Loren Brichter
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“What we had wrong was the idea that anybody can screw together a dishwasher,” says Lenzi. “We thought, ‘We’ll do the engineering, we’ll do the marketing, and the manufacturing becomes a black box.’ But there is an inherent understanding that moves out when you move the manufacturing out. And you never get it back.” — The Insourcing Boom - The Atlantic
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This book is not a manifesto. There is not time for that. This book is a warning.
The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recognized outside of national security circles. It has been hidden by secrecy, complexity and scale. The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.
” —Julian Assange: A Call to Cryptographic Arms
That is a damned good start to a book. Must download.
Just finished Monoculture. It’s the best survey I’ve seen on what might be our meta-crisis, the mistake that ties together a lot of the seemingly disparate problems modern society faces: we treat markets like they’re the answer to everything.
It’s also only 135 pages, so you can read it in an afternoon, like I just did.
Me likey
My brother’s friend was starting to apply for colleges. And one of the colleges he applied to required a 3 page essay explaining what daring meant to them.
So being the clever person he was
On each page he wrote 1 word with huge font,
THIS
IS
DARING
And he later got accepted.
Probably not true, but pretty funny.
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