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Data-mining for Screenplays
‘“It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you...
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer
In the first sentence of The Unwinding, George Packer tells us what his title means: “No one can say when the unwinding began – when the coil that held Americans together in its secure and sometimes...
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MIT Open Courseware
Open: characterized by ready accessibility and usually generous attitude: as (1) : generous in giving – Webster’s Online Dictionary “The idea is simple: to publish all of our course materials online...
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Big news for online education
In mathematics, an inflection point is the place on a curve where the curvature changes from concave upward (positive) to concave downward (negative) or vice versa. Andy Grove, former Intel CEO, gave...
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Robots ‘R Us, installment 2
The Steam Man of the Prairies, 1868. Public Domain. An obscure author, Edward S. Ellis, who published a dime novel called The Steam Man of the Prairies 145 years ago, may prove to have been a visionary...
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Virtual dreams
A few nights ago I had a 21st century dream in which the key event was losing my cell phone. In days of yore – say five or ten years ago – losing a wallet was the common dream image for a disruption...
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Break out the tinfoil helmets!
From “Signs,” 2002 I find the tinfoil helmet image is always good for a laugh – don’t want those pesky aliens messing with our thought patterns! At the same time, we all know aliens aren’t the problem....
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The Social Dilemma: A Movie Review.
The Social Dilemma, released on Netflix on September 9, is a comprehensive evaluation of the dark side of social media, by some of the senior engineers who designed the underpinnings of these systems:...
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