Group items tagged theory - Digital Civilization

The Transaction Cost Approach to the Theory of the Firm - 1 views

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Trickle-down Economics and Ronald Reagan - 0 views

www.bigissueground.com/...blair-trickledownreagan.shtml

trickle-down economics

shared by Shuan Pai on 09 Nov 10 - Cached

no significant barrier to the accumulation of wealth by individuals
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If the rich do well, benefits will "trickle down" to the rest.
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To qualify as TDE a country must have either a low or flat rate tax on income or only a mildly progressive one (to insure that the rich can continue to get richer, or to trick the poor and middle income people into thinking they can get more and keep it).
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John Maynard Keynes published his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in 1936 and its main thesis was that the federal budget need not always be balanced. Indeed Keynes proposed that the federal government should run a deficit, especially during a recession/depression.
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Shuan Pai on 09 Nov 10

describes the trickle-down economic system

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YouTube - Adam Smith was wrong... - 0 views

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Brad Twining on 09 Nov 10

Beautiful Mind scene with Nash equilibrium

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Einsteins Theory of Relativity - 0 views

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the principle of relativity
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We advance a step farther in our generalisation when we express the tenet thus: If, relative to K, K1 is a uniformly moving co-ordinate system devoid of rotation, then natural phenomena run their course with respect to K1 according to exactly the same general laws as with respect to K. This statement is called
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(in the restricted sense).
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two general facts which at the outset speak very much in favour of the validity of the principle of relativity
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The principle of relativity must therefore apply with great accuracy in the domain of mechanics
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- James Wilcox on 28 Oct 10
  
  Basically I get out of this the fact that Einstein is a genius and can quite literally think outside of the box. In fact he can think at the box from any angle in multiple dimensions and then describe it. Although I am sure I am not getting this 100%, I do see that the light is working on his end.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Basically I get out of this the fact that Einstein is a genius and can quite literally think outside of the box. In fact he can think at the box from any angle in multiple dimensions and then describe it. Although I am sure I am not getting this 100%, I do see that the light is working on his end.</div>
  
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A Logic Named Joe - 1 views

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shared by Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10 - Cached

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 on 03 Nov 10
  
  Joe is Google
  
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it made Joe a individual
- Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
  
  Joe has machine intelligence.
  
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But I think he went kinda remote-control exploring in the tank.
- 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 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!
  
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In theory, a censor block is gonna come on an' the screen will say severely, "Public Policy Forbids This Service."
- Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
  
  Joe disables content filtering services.
  
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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 on 03 Nov 10
  
  More echoes of Google -- privacy vs convenience
  
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Then I sweat!
- Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
  
  Social networking makes it easier to be unfaithful, causes tension in marriages.
  
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Logics are civilization! If we shut off logics, we go back to a kind of civilization we have forgotten how to run!
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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 on 03 Nov 10
  
  Technology introduces new moral questions
  
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Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - 0 views

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culture philosophy adorno theory consumerism modernism

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Gideon Burton on 27 Oct 10

Critique of consumer culture from an important theorist about modernism, Theodor Adorno (with Max Horkheimer)

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Freud's Theories About Sex As Relevant as Ever - 0 views

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Jake Corkin on 01 Nov 10

an opinion essay on Freud's relevance today

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Freud's theories on psychoanalysis - 0 views

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good intro to freud's studies and methodology.

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Modernism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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From the 1870s onward, the ideas that history and civilization were inherently progressive and that progress was always good came under increasing attack.
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Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection undermined the religious certainty
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Karl Marx argued there were fundamental contradictions within the capitalist system
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The miseries of industrial urbanism and the possibilities created by scientific examination of subjects brought changes that would shake a European civilization which had, until then, regarded itself as having a continuous and progressive line of development from the Renaissance. With the telegraph's harnessing of a new power, offering instant communication at a distance, the experience of time itself was altered.
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