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Gideon Burton

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us - YouTube - 0 views

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    Shared by David Perkins
Erin Hamson

Internet Censorship: Debate Continues Over Google and YouTube's Effect on the Real World - 0 views

    • Jeffrey Whitlock
       
      I am not sure where I fall on this argument. I certainly do not believe that the Government should regulate youtube any more than currently does but I am not sure whether youtube is a mirror that reflects societal values or whether it is actually an integral part in influencing them. What do you think?
  • Communication is never motivated purely by a desire to convey information about the world, it is always an attempt to alter that world, even if only to make a few quid or re-establish an old friendship.
    • Erin Hamson
       
      This is the truth. Even the most inconsequential things we "post", can change the way others see us and the things we talk about.
Jeffrey Chen

The Achilles' Heal of Capitalism - 0 views

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    An interesting article on pros and cons of capitalism. While capitalism offers financial profit for anyone willing to work hard, capitalism also allows for selfishness and wayward personal motivation. An interesting moral view.
Kristi Koerner

How Did All This Get Here?: Naturally.. - 0 views

    • Kristi Koerner
       
      Is it possible then to have unselfish motives in anything?
Katherine Chipman

Overview - The Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum - 0 views

  • Babbage embarked on an ambitious venture to design and build mechanical calculating engines to eliminate the risk of human error in the production of printed tables. The 'unerring certainty of machinery' would solve the problem of human fallibility. His work on the engines led him from mechanized arithmetic to the entirely new realm of automatic computation. Tabular errors provided a practical stimulus. But this was not his only motive. He also saw his engines as a new technology of mathematics.
  • It was not only the grindingly tedious labor of verifying a sea of figures that exasperated Babbage, but their daunting unreliability. Engineering, astronomy, construction, finance, banking and insurance depended on printed tables for calculation. Ships navigating by the stars relied on printed tables to find their position at sea. The stakes were high. Capital and life were thought to be at risk.
Gideon Burton

Coase's Penguin: Or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm - 0 views

  • I suggest that we are seeing is the broad and deep emergence of a new, third mode of production in the digitally networked environment. I call this mode "commons-based peer-production," to distinguish it from the property- and contract-based models of firms and markets. Its central characteristic is that groups of individuals successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals, rather than either market prices or managerial commands.
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    A seminal article from Yochai Benkler about changes to economic theory in the digital age.
Kristen Nicole Cardon

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein - 0 views

  • "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
  • "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
  • "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
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    I guess I just really like what brilliant people have to say :)
Katherine Chipman

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

  • 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.
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