Future Shock Term[edit] Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a "super-industrial society". This change overwhelms people. He believed the accelerated rate of technological and social change left people disconnected and suffering from "shattering stress and disorientation"—future shocked. Toffler stated that the majority of social problems are symptoms of future shock. In the introduction to an essay entitled "Future Shlock" in his book, Conscientious Objections, Neil Postman wrote: "Sometime about the middle of 1963, my colleague Charles Weingartner and I delivered in tandem an address to the National Council of Teachers of English. Development of society and production[edit] Alvin Toffler distinguished three stages in development of society and production: Agrarian, Industrial and Post-industrial. Toffler proposed one criterion for distinguishing between industrial society and post-industrial society. Reprints[edit]
Quantum Diaries – By Byron Jennings, Theorist and Project Coordinator Model dependent realism. I’m aware that this succinct definition sounds like an oxymoron: if it is model dependent how can it be realism? A very similar idea for how knowledge is acquired goes by the name Critical Realism. Critical realism traces its roots back to a chemist, Michael Polanyi (1891 – 1976), but I first read about it in the book The New Testament and the People of God by N.T. It will seem strange to many people that in a book that attacks the idea of God (The Grand Design) and a conservative Christian theologian propose similar models for obtaining knowledge. How is the separation of sheep from goats done? You can go through example after example and see observation deciding between or among competing models. What do the internals of models mean?
L'Observatoire des Tendances Examination of the Fabric of the Universe Video Log in Cynthia Yildirim Examination of the Fabric of the Universe Is it possible for distant galaxies to be moving away from us faster than the speed of light? posted 3 years ago aditya saini liked this ar_oee liked this tmorin51 liked this Kyle Lohan liked this coolbus18 liked this adriel_tavel liked this jessedgb liked this Oteque liked this © 2014 Redux, Inc. about redux | contact us | copyright | legal
The Great Debate Contributors: Matt Ridley The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Matt Ridley turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better. Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet. The availability of almost everything a person could want or need has been going erratically upwards for 10,000 years and has rapidly accelerated over the last 200 years: calories; vitamins; clean water; machines; privacy; the means to travel faster than we can run, and the ability to communicate over longer distances than we can shout. In this original, optimistic book, Matt Ridley puts forward his surprisingly simple answer to how humans progress, arguing that we progress when we trade and we only really trade productively when we trust each other. Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code
Fracture numérique : 25% des Français n’ont pas accès à Internet L’Observatoire des Inégalités, organisme indépendant d’information et d’analyse sur les inégalités, a mis en ligne début mai 2012 un dossier sur la fracture numérique en France intitulé Technologies de l’information : des inégalités qui se réduisent avec des données, chiffrages et pourcentages issus du dernier rapport annuel du CREDOC : La diffusion des technologies de l’information et de la communication dans la société française (2011). L’organisme souligne des points-clés sur l’équipement et l’accès français à l’informatique, à l’Internet et aux outils connectés. Diminution des inégalités d’accès 85 % des Français possèdent un téléphone portable, 78 % ont un micro-ordinateur et 75 % sont équipés d’Internet à domicile. La situation s’améliore pour les populations les moins diplômées : entre 2001 et 2009, le taux d’accès à Internet à domicile a été multiplié par 6,8 passant de 8 à 54 % chez ceux qui ont un diplôme inférieur au bac. Des disparités persistantes Licence :
Knowledge Management and the Smarter Lawyer Stand Up for Owners' Rights If you buy something, you can do with it—and do away with it—as you want. Right? The digital age is challenging this most basic of expectations in a few ways, and EFF and its allies are on the lookout. The Supreme Court will soon review a court decision that, if upheld, could put handcuffs on our ability to sell digital goods, or even physical goods with copyrighted logos or artwork, simply because the goods were manufactured outside the U.S. EFF has signed on to the Citizens' Petition for Ownership Rights, urging the U.S. government and the courts to protect our basic assumption that if you buy it, you own it, and can dispose of it as you please. The petition was prompted by Kirtsaeng v. In Kirtsaeng, the U.S. This decision gives copyright owners the ability to shut off markets for used copies, just by moving physical manufacturing abroad. The defendant (and EFF) asked the Supreme Court to review the case, and the Court agreed.
Alternative Technology Association website World population densities mapped National Geographic has a look at where and how we live: The map shows population density; the brightest points are the highest densities. Each country is colored according to its average annual gross national income per capita, using categories established by the World Bank (see key below). Some nations — like economic powerhouses China and India — have an especially wide range of incomes. But as the two most populous countries, both are lower middle class when income is averaged per capita. It's interesting, but the map is a little wonky, because the income levels and population densities differ in granularity. There are also three other slides that follow the map (like the one below), but they're mostly just run-of-the-mill list of facts with cutesy icons to show percentages. I dunno, I'm on the fence here. [National Geographic | Thanks, Laura]
The Rise of the New Global Elite - Magazine F. Scott Fitzgerald was right when he declared the rich different from you and me. But today’s super-rich are also different from yesterday’s: more hardworking and meritocratic, but less connected to the nations that granted them opportunity—and the countrymen they are leaving ever further behind. Stephen Webster/Wonderful Machine If you happened to be watching NBC on the first Sunday morning in August last summer, you would have seen something curious. There, on the set of Meet the Press, the host, David Gregory, was interviewing a guest who made a forceful case that the U.S. economy had become “very distorted.” This diagnosis, though alarming, was hardly unique: drawing attention to the divide between the wealthy and everyone else has long been standard fare on the left. This widening gap between the rich and non-rich has been evident for years. In a plutonomy there is no such animal as “the U.S. consumer” or “the UK consumer”, or indeed the “Russian consumer”.