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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT…
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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent…
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz…
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some…
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Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
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Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every…
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The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
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Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are…
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy,…
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books…
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers,…
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With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected…
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Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its…
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The profitable part of the online business is very likely several years away. Entering the business because it's the hot topic of…
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Women need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than…
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Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In…
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Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that…
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The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.
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If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a…
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Third World War will be the mainstay of petrol and inflation
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