Shifting Focus in Education from the Answers to the Questions

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“I have a theory of life,” said [Ms.] Chumlig, “and it is straight out of gaming: There is always an angle. You, each of you, have some special wild cards. Play with them. Find out what makes you different and better. Because it is there, if only you can find it. And once you [...]

The Fabric of Social-Time: A Function of Society Over Time

The Sun taken by SOHOIts important to continue to think of the underlying dynamics that occur in the event of a society, as being influenced by what should be thought of as forces. The thinking of these forces should be no different than that of the major four universal forces. In fact, these social forces [...]

Paranoia, Paranoia Everybody is Coming to Track You…

Mobile People TrackingA recent June 9th press release issued by Sense Networks highlights the increasing social focus on digitizing our physical spaces. Sense Networks patent-pending technology is billed as a “software platform that indexes the real world using mobile location data.”

The depth of information that Sense Networks is able to acquire [...]

Pinker: It’s hard to see how China will ever compete with the West

ChangNing ShanghaiIn the latest issue of Edge the well-known Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker questions the popular assertion that “China will be the next scientific and economic power.” What prompted Pinker to question that assertion seems to be the recent rejection by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to [...]

Guerilla Ad Vending

Future Guerilla Ad Vending GearUsing GPS, internet, a mobile device and mini-projector street vendors can download and display motion advertising on urban surfaces based on their current location. Ads can contain QR-Codes (make your own) which could require the ad vendor to get passerbys to scan the code with [...]

On the Nature of Gravity as Information Compression

GravityIf one assumes the Universe is indeed composed of information and that indeed the Universe is processing that information through physical means then the major forces as defined by the science of Physics can be explained by what is expressed as Information Technology. Specifically society has come to create technologies that address matter and energy as discreet finite units of [...]


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