The Worst of All Possible Worlds – and the Best
I, Cringely – Privacy is dead and here’s how
Tomgram: Engelhardt, What Planet Are We On?
Open Democracy – How dangerous is mental illness?
Microsoft – Download Visual Studio 2013
I have written – at length – about how bad things are. But at the same time I can only wonder at all the good stuff that comes pouring in from the Computer Cloud. Two entirely different things seem to be going on at the same time. But I cannot help but wonder if they are not related somehow. Is the Universe playing some kind of trick on us?
If so, it proves that only the tough survive – those able to see everything that is going on – a tall order. The links at the top of this posting are the ones I looked at (mostly only briefly) today. I still have videos from two online courses to look at.
What do most people do? Nothing, they are paralyzed by all the stuff coming at them. And they only want to be entertained.
This is not smart – but as I said in another posting today Loss of the Ability to Think, this is where we are.
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