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Someday robots may take over the world. The dystopian possibilities don’t trouble me like the probable rise of art-making machines. Art is, arguably, what most distinguishes humans from the rest of creation. It is the thing that makes us proudest of ourselves. For all of the nastiness of human history, at least we wrote some…
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But that headset is so isolating that it really makes you feel cut off and alone. For Disney, the Future of VR Goes Beyond a Headset | WIRED
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“When people talk about virtual reality these days, they’re generally talking about head-mounted displays,” Yang told me before his presentation. “But we need to think in a broader context. VR is really about the human body as an input/output mechanism. It’s about spoofing inputs into the human perceptual system to create desired effects.” Yang is…
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Everything about the MacBook is about beauty,.. Hands-On With the Unbelievably Thin, Strange New MacBook | WIRED
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hangingfire: femalepressure: VISIBILITY female pressure is an international network of female artists in the fields of electronic music: from musicians, composers and DJs to visual artists, cultural workers and researchers. A worldwide resource of female talent that can be searched after criteria like location, profession, style or name. “Why are there so few women active…
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…Let us be clear. Universities keep huge endowments, money on reserve, because they are supposed to keep money. They will always tell you they cannot afford you. They will not spend their money to save the life of a Black feminist. Poet Laureate though she may be. Let us be clear. The universities that we…
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Peak Facebook
mostlysignssomeportents: Jeswin proposes that Facebook has failed, explaining that the more you use Facebook, the worse it gets. He describes a login screen with 30 stories on it, four of which are interesting, and blames Facebook for encouraging its users — especially commercial users — to share in ways that make the experience worse for…
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gjmueller: The Teaching Brain and the Science Behind Great Teaching The book seeks to answer the question, “What is teaching?” and makes the assertion that teacher quality is so important and yet sometimes misunderstood. So, do we know the science behind what makes great teaching? added to my “to read” list
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The authors believe this takeover will happen in two stages. First, computers will start replacing people in especially vulnerable fields like transportation/logistics, production labor, and administrative support. Jobs in services, sales, and construction may also be lost in this first stage. Then, the rate of replacement will slow down due to bottlenecks in harder-to-automate fields…
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China is not offshoring to find cheaper labor,” he added. “There is obviously something else going on here. ‘47 Percent’ Of U.S. Jobs Are At Risk Because Of Advancing Technologies