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In the end, no special effects, dazzling displays, augmented realities, or multimodal cross-platform designs substitute for content. Scholarship, good scholarship, the work of a lifetime commitment to working in a field — mapping its references, arguments, scholars, sources, and terrain of discourse — has no substitute. The difference between amateur and professional remains significant. Novelty…
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To make sure humanities scholarship thrives, it is crucial that we cut through the fog of pixel dust–induced illusion to the practical realities of what digital technology offers to scholarship. Among the prevailing misconceptions about digital production of any kind is that it is cheap, permanent yet somehow immaterial, and that it is done by…
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WEF: Top 10 emerging technologies of 2015
WEF: Top 10 emerging technologies of 2015 futuramb: Fuel cell vehicles Next-generation robotics Recyclable thermoset plastics Precise genetic engineering techniques Additive manufacturing Emergent artificial intelligence Distributed manufacturing ‘Sense and avoid’ drones Neuromorphic technology Digital genome
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There is nothing actually legitimate about Fox News (or MSNBC for that matter) and young people know this. They don’t trust news organizations because news organizations have given them no reason to be trusting. These channels exist not to inform but to uphold the biases and values of particular ideologies. Ideologies and values, by the…
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offbeatmel: Dear Blackout, My mother has never called me by name, she calls me beautiful “How was your day, beautiful?” “Beautiful, help clean up.” “Yes, beautiful?” And I believed her. But then I turned on the tv, flipped through the magazines, saw the only thing deemed a “beauty” to look nothing like me. And as…