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Bill Genereux

Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn't need us. - 0 views

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      Bill Genereux on 09 Feb 13
       
      This is happening already. Look at automated trading on Wall Street.
  • because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system.
  • exterminate the mass of humanity.
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  • reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct
  • they may decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest of the human race.
  • These engineered human beings may be happy in such a society, but they will most certainly not be free. They will have been reduced to the status of domestic animals.
Bill Genereux

Photography, Integrity and Humans of New York | PhotoShelter Blog - 0 views

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    Bag News Editor-at-Large, Meg Handler, wrote an insightful piece on the "gay schoolboy" photo taken by Brandon Stanton and featured on the ever-popular Humans
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The art of storytelling according to StoryCorps and Humans of New York | ideas.ted.com - 0 views

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    Dave Isay of StoryCorps and Brandon Stanton of the website, Humans of New York, share thoughts on how to get the best stories out of people.
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The Creepy New Wave of the Internet by Sue Halpern | The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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    As human behavior is tracked and merchandized on a massive scale, the Internet of Things creates the perfect conditions to bolster and expand the surveillance state.
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Building a Bridge Between Engineering and the Humanities - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 18 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Acquiring the habit of overcoming habitual perception is one process that brings engineering and the arts together.
  • engineering sometimes works not by satisfying recognized needs but by creating the needs it satisfies.
  • empathy is what literature, above all, is good at teaching
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  • Empathy creates better people and better technical innovations for people to use.
  • Boosting enrollments in STEM is not enough
Bill Genereux

Why a leading professor of new media just banned technology use in class - The Washingt... - 0 views

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  • Humans are incapable of ignoring surprising new information in our visual field, an effect that is strongest when the visual cue is slightly above and beside the area we’re focusing on.
  • Our visual and emotional systems are faster and more powerful than our intellect
  • attention is the substance which makes the whole consumer internet go
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  • they need defenses against the powerful short-term incentives to put off complex, frustrating tasks
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Caltech Commencement| Alan Alda - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 18 Mar 09 - Cached
  • He refused to take anybody's word for anything. This meant that he was forced to rediscover or reinvent for himself almost the whole of physics
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      Bill Genereux on 18 Mar 09
       
      I wonder if students could follow this example, reinventing the technologies they are learning. For example, to truly understand TCP/IP, networking students could attempt to design their own version to get a feel for what it must do.
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