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Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else.…
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Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual,…
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I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward…
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From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often…
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If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy…
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The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing…
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As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the…
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Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin…
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We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a…
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For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we…
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Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.
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Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed…
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We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will…
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I'll live as a courtesan, not as a woman. I'll embrace any man that comes my way. It's not hard giving your…
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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before…
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The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do…
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And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and…
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority…
— John Roberts
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Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it…
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The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be…
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It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole…
— Lytton Strachey
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The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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