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Andrew DeWitt

A Tale of two cities - Google Books - 1 views

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 30 Sep 10
     
    A good historical fiction read on the French Revolution.
  • Trevor Cox on 30 Sep 10
     
    This book is a great commentary on people and governments. If you haven't read it, you must.
Andrew DeWitt

Learning in the Light of Faith - 0 views

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  • When I was just out of graduate school, I attended my first meeting of the American Physical Society in New York City. A highlight was a special event arranged by the conference organizers: the great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov had been invited to speak to us.
  • Hour after hour he wrote down the stories he found in books in the university library about people protesting the invention of things like machines to spin thread and to weave cloth, steam-powered trains, automobiles, airplanes, etc. All of these advances were perceived by the general public either to be physically dangerous or to be a threat to the livelihoods of workers in trades that were about to be destroyed by these advances.
  • when he started to write science fiction, he remembered all of this work he had done. So while his fellow writers were all rhapsodizing about the thrill of rockets and space travel (long before such things were possible), he wrote a story about how the local populace showed up at the launch site with torches and pitchforks in opposition to space travel. Years later, when rockets and travel outside of the earth’s atmosphere became possible, there were protests, and many of Mr. Asimov’s colleagues were astounded that he had predicted so far in advance that this would occur.
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  • “Why,” Mr. Asimov then asked us, “among all of these talented and visionary writers, was I the only one who was able to predict that this resistance to change would occur?” He let us think about the question for an uncomfortably silent minute, then leaned into the microphone and said in an intense voice that I still vividly remember: “It’s because people are stupid!”
  • The lesson I take from my memory of this experience is that the proper attitude to have when confronted with the vast complexity both of the universe and of the ideas and activities of the people who live on this small planet orbiting an ordinary star far away from the center of things in our galaxy is profound humility.
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      Andrew DeWitt on 19 Oct 10
       
      This is how we ought to deal with future shock: "humility"
  • Andrew DeWitt on 19 Oct 10
     
    Great Devotional Talk by Ross Spencer.  Includes a great reference to "Future Shock".
Andrew DeWitt

Steampunk - Wikipedia - 0 views

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 04 Oct 10
     
    A sub-genre of science fiction based of a Victorian era, steam-powered, Britain. Tuesday's digital culture component. Steampunk you make recognize: Wild Wild West (movie), Sherlock Holmes (movie)
Bri Zabriskie

Wearable computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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digiciv science computer revolution

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  • Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
     
    It sounds like science fiction! LOL
Margaret Weddle

Bowditch Online - 1 views

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Bowditch navigation piloting tides time sailing oceans ice weather

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  • Margaret Weddle on 08 Oct 10
     
    The American Practical Navigator Great stuff, if you've ever had an inkling of an interest in sailing, oceans, weather, etc! Read the Juvinile Fiction book, "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" to understand what this is all about - an old neighbor (a Navy Submariner) told me that this book is part of the standard library on every Navy vessel! VERY interesting browsing, this!
  • Margaret Weddle on 08 Oct 10
     
    Cool stuff that goes with our selected book!
Margaret Weddle

Atomic Age #1 - Atomic Age (comic book issue) - Comic Vine - 0 views

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  • Margaret Weddle on 05 Nov 10
     
    ""Atomic Age #1" is a comic whose story involves the arrival of an alien humanoid on a US Air Force base located on a fictional island in the South Pacific." History, Science, & comic books! fun!!
Margaret Weddle

The Atomic Revolution: A Nuclear Comic Book from 1957: Scientific American Slideshows - 0 views

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  • Margaret Weddle on 05 Nov 10
     
    A Non-Fiction comic book of the history of the Atomic Age
Daniel Zappala

A Logic Named Joe - 1 views

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  • Say you punch "Station SNAFU" on your logic. Relays in the tank take over an' whatever vision-program SNAFU is telecastin' comes on your logic's screen. Or you punch "Sally Hancock's Phone" an' the screen blinks an' sputters an' you're hooked up with the logic in her house an' if somebody answers you got a vision-phone connection. But besides that, if you punch for the weather forecast or who won today's race at Hialeah or who was mistress of the White House durin' Garfield's administration or what is PDQ and R sellin' for today, that comes on the screen too.
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      Joe is Google
  • it made Joe a individual
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      Joe has machine intelligence.
  • But I think he went kinda remote-control exploring in the tank.
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      Joe is using data mining.
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  • An' logics can do a Iotta things that ain't been found out yet.
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      In science fiction, machine intelligence launches us into the unknown -- computers might be able to do things that we can't conceive of ourselves!
  • In theory, a censor block is gonna come on an' the screen will say severely, "Public Policy Forbids This Service."
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      Joe disables content filtering services.
  • The screen says, "Service question: What is your name?" She is kinda puzzled, but she punches it. The screen sputters an' then says: "Secretarial Service Demonstration! You—" It reels off her name, address, age, sex, coloring, the amounts of all her charge accounts in all the stores, my name as her husband, how much I get a week, the fact that I've been pinched three times—twice was traffic stuff, and once for a argument I got in with a guy—and the interestin' item that once when she was mad with me she left me for three weeks an' had her address changed to her folks' home. Then it says, brisk: "Logics Service will hereafter keep your personal accounts, take messages, and locate persons you may wish to get in touch with. This demonstration is to introduce the service."
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      More echoes of Google -- privacy vs convenience
  • Then I sweat!
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      Social networking makes it easier to be unfaithful, causes tension in marriages.
  • Logics are civilization! If we shut off logics, we go back to a kind of civilization we have forgotten how to run!
  • That couldn't be allowed out general, of course. You gotta make room for kids to grow up. But it's a pretty good world, now Joe's turned off. Maybe I'll turn him on long enough to learn how to stay in it. But on the other hand, maybe—
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      Technology introduces new moral questions
Andrew DeWitt

YouTube - Fictionalized Criticality Accident - 0 views

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 11 Nov 10
     
    An event in the study of nuclear weapons.  See my blog post for more info  http://bit.ly/903zlH
Katherine Chipman

Fear! Living Under a Mushroom Cloud, a collection at the Museum at the Wisconsin Histor... - 0 views

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atomic

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  • America's post-World War II period is often portrayed as a time of affluence and contentment, but fear of atomic war and Communist infiltration also marked the era and affected the decisions Americans made about their lives and futures. Fear of atomic bomb attacks on the nation's cities helped motivate people to move to the relative safety of the suburbs. Some Americans built fallout shelters to protect their families while others, shocked by the prospect of nuclear annihilation at any moment, sought to live for the present.
  • Once the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, Americans realized a new era in history, one defined by the ability of humans to destroy their world.
  • Positive portrayals of atomic bomb blasts, along with toys and games that made light of atomic bomb destruction like those in the case below, may have helped diffuse some of the fear the American public felt about the bomb by desensitizing them to the devastation an atomic bomb could cause.
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  • While "atomic fiction" depicted possible fearful scenarios using atomic bombs and radiation, documentary sources illustrated the reality. Newspapers, magazines, books, and pamphlets described in vivid detail the effects of nuclear bombs on the Bikini Atoll, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, kept Americans abreast of the latest atomic developments and their destructive forces, and explained the devastating results if a bomb were to be dropped on the United States. All combined to reinforce the fear Americans had about anything atomic
  • Atomic Age fears provided science fiction writers with the inspiration for hundreds of stories, many of which conveyed political and moral messages as they shocked and entertained American readers and movie audiences. Three story types had emerged by the mid-1950s: the first dealt with atomic warfare; the second showed dinosaurs or fantastical beasts awakened or created by atomic blasts; and the third type depicted human deformities resulting from atomic experiments gone awry.
Margaret Weddle

Eliot, Charles W., ed. The Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1909... - 0 views

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  • Margaret Weddle on 23 Sep 10
     
    The Harvard Classics as free online open source books. They were advertised that, if read, they would provide an excellent Liberal Arts education. Some are simply selections of the whole books - but it is certainly a good overview! I think that I would prefer to read the whole books, though!
Shaun Frenza

Motorized Hub - 1 views

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  • Shaun Frenza on 26 Oct 10
     
    Science fiction in action - or at least in a website. Should have posted as Singularity Hub.
Andrew DeWitt

History of Computers and Computing, Internet, Dreamers, Murray Leinster - 2 views

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  • Leinster made one of the first descriptions of a personal computer (called a "logic") in science fiction
  • Leinster envisioned logics in every home, linked through a distributed system of servers (called "tanks"), to provide communications, entertainment, data access, and even commerce
  • Information runs rampant as every logic worldwide crunches away at problems too vast in scope for human minds to have attempted. Societal chaos quickly ensues, the situation became critical.
  • Andrew DeWitt on 04 Nov 10
     
    Sweet story!
Andrew DeWitt

YouTube - fat man and little boy - tickling the dragon - 0 views

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 11 Nov 10
     
    This copy of the video is better quality
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