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This is not, usually, what people have in mind when they attack reductionism; they are thinking, rather, of one of two impostors. The first, which seems to be the bogey of humanists and social scientists, it might be better to call unicausalism. It is the mistake of "reducing" a large and variegated class of phenomena to the effects of a single type of cause, more precisely to claim they are all functions of a single causal variable, as, for instance, saying that people's IQ scores set the courses of their lives, or that a writer's literary productions are a function of her relationship to the means of production, or the way she was weaned, or (if I've got it right) the structure of her episteme, as concealed in her language. ( Bad episteme! John Holland, Emergence

John Holland, Emergence

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Taki’s Magazine, edited by Taki Theodoracopulos Dewar's sponsors MOCA/Vanity Fair Art Basel dinner at Sandra and Stephen Muss's - Miami, Florida - November 29, 2011 Katie Robbins and Gordon Beneklasen

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Joy's concerns, and others like his, formerly were found only in science fiction for it is in that genre that technological and social possibilities are most creatively explored. For that reason I would like to invoke the memory of H. G. Wells, the English science fiction writer, historian, generalist, and visionary, who did not live to see the Internet or other recent technological achievements. Cultivating Society's Civic Intelligence

Organisational chart "Reports to" "Must be done before" The system must allow any sort of information to be entered. The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized

Ward Cunningham, Wiki Creator, Eclipse Dir. of Committer Communi I thought that the only thing I could really do with it is first of all support my own community. I really am more about improving the way software developers work, but I also thought, well, if it is more widely used it'll just be a calling card and a way for people to know me. It certainly worked in that regard. I've always gone for the idea that the idea is so simple that it sounds foolish until you've been shown that there is some misunderstanding. You know I thought about patenting it 11 years ago and I was a small company and I figured, well, if I got a patent then I'd have to go out and sell people on the idea that anyone could edit.

Coincidences that made Google successful I thought Sergey was pretty obnoxious. He had really strong opinions about things, and I guess I did, too - Larry Page

Wallflower at the Web Party - New York Times

My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla is the true unsung prophet of the electronic age; without whom our radio, auto ignition, telephone, alternating current power generation and transmission, radio and television would all have been impossible. Yet his life and times have vanished largely from public access. This autobiography is released to remedy this situation. Table of Contents Tesla moved to the United States in 1884, where he worked for Thomas Edison who quickly became a rival Edison being an advocate of the inferior DC power transmission system.

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