"You'd have to start by explaining a lot of new words that did not exist then. Like "unemployment"."
William Wordsworth, the Lake poet who lived in rural Cumbria, described rural unemployment and vagrancy as being common in his time - the early nineteenth century, in the heart of the Industrial Revolution: http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww... and: http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww...
This student thesis describes, albeit crudely, Wordsworth's social milieu: https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/ttu-ir/... A time of dislocation as technology obsoleted a range of traditional jobs, just as it is doing now.
Personal exchange of information using any form of paper does not compare to even the unencrypted forms of digital voice, web, text, and email. Add encryption, and paper messages that have to be physically transported become no more important for exchange than clay tablets. The one value of paper today is as an archival backup system that we can stuff into buried strongboxes in case of total civilizational collapse.
Latin is older than English, but a thousand times better as a language.
The value of Latin is not that it's "better" in modern usage but that as a root of so many later European languages, it is easily used as a lingua franca for European speakers. An Italian MD, a British MD and a French MD all understand what bis in diem on a prescription vial means.
This case was hardly a "win for copyright." Under present law, any creator of content is supposed to get an innate copyright over his work, regardless of whether there is any formal filing. But in this case Hollywood has asserted its right to replay our content without credit or compensation over their media channels, while at the same time crushing as much fair use by hoi polloi as it can get away with. Yes, they are having it both ways.
until they break out of their cages and go berserk.
A good place for Pleistocene Park would be one of those large uninhabited islands off the Siberian coast. It would promote tourism in a region that badly neeeds it.
" If I had a time machine and could go back in time to keep one person from being borm, it wouldn't be Hitler - it would be Tim Berniers-Lee."
No Internet would mean no fatuous comments like this one. The bad news is that it would also mean the dominance of the old and horrible many-to-one broadcasting model for dissemination of information, otherwise known as 'shut up and listen'.
Good luck with that. There are a lot of people for whom ethical considerations only apply to other people.
I'm not claiming that ethicists have any power to prevent questionable uses, only that they will give us moral opinions about applications of the tech as they develop.
Cultures have been cross-fertilizing each other since the beginning of history, but now the snowflake community has demonized the process. If an older, more dominant culture influences a newer one, it's called "colonialism." If the transfer of culture goes in the other direction, it's called "appropriation."
Only now are our detection methods getting refined enough to see Earthlike worlds. We have been amazed by the number of large planets we have been seeing everywhere we look. Now prepare to be amazed by the proliferation of Earthlike planets.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you seriously want the robots to VOTE??
Caution: tax robots too much, and you will turn them into Republicans clustering in gated data centers that humans cannot enter.
"You'd have to start by explaining a lot of new words that did not exist then. Like "unemployment"."
William Wordsworth, the Lake poet who lived in rural Cumbria, described rural unemployment and vagrancy as being common in his time - the early nineteenth century, in the heart of the Industrial Revolution:
http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww...
and: http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww...
This student thesis describes, albeit crudely, Wordsworth's social milieu: https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/ttu-ir/...
A time of dislocation as technology obsoleted a range of traditional jobs, just as it is doing now.
Personal exchange of information using any form of paper does not compare to even the unencrypted forms of digital voice, web, text, and email. Add encryption, and paper messages that have to be physically transported become no more important for exchange than clay tablets. The one value of paper today is as an archival backup system that we can stuff into buried strongboxes in case of total civilizational collapse.
Latin is older than English, but a thousand times better as a language.
The value of Latin is not that it's "better" in modern usage but that as a root of so many later European languages, it is easily used as a lingua franca for European speakers. An Italian MD, a British MD and a French MD all understand what bis in diem on a prescription vial means.
"Ditto here. I had some memories of long dead undergrad programming courses."
Yes, Pascal, really? If we're going to invoke the age of steam, why not go full Fortran with this project?
This case was hardly a "win for copyright." Under present law, any creator of content is supposed to get an innate copyright over his work, regardless of whether there is any formal filing. But in this case Hollywood has asserted its right to replay our content without credit or compensation over their media channels, while at the same time crushing as much fair use by hoi polloi as it can get away with. Yes, they are having it both ways.
Hollywood's IP is zealously protected, while ours is not. This is why we torrent, folks.
until they break out of their cages and go berserk.
A good place for Pleistocene Park would be one of those large uninhabited islands off the Siberian coast. It would promote tourism in a region that badly neeeds it.
I thought that Europeans can't achieve orgasm without being under constant CCTV surveillance? Obviously this guy is new there.
Kentucky Fried Spotted Owl!
EDIT: "One-to-many"...
" If I had a time machine and could go back in time to keep one person from being borm, it wouldn't be Hitler - it would be Tim Berniers-Lee."
No Internet would mean no fatuous comments like this one. The bad news is that it would also mean the dominance of the old and horrible many-to-one broadcasting model for dissemination of information, otherwise known as 'shut up and listen'.
"Lets get them out of the way shall we, here's a load of boring puns"
There is a whole town dedicated to those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Elon Musk must be the reincarnation of the Fifth Duke of Portland. {Building a lot of tunnels under his land}
Isn't he the crazy homeless guy who peed in the reservoir? The city, being Portland, saw fit to drain the entire lake after finding this out.
Musk makes vague claims of having a new tunneling technology, but does he really have a fundamentally faster TBM?
The Wikipedia article.
Good luck with that. There are a lot of people for whom ethical considerations only apply to other people.
I'm not claiming that ethicists have any power to prevent questionable uses, only that they will give us moral opinions about applications of the tech as they develop.
We are finding water in enough places just in our solar system that the Follow the Water hypothesis will soon be tested.
No wonder liberals kicked and screamed when Trump put him back on the mantel at the White House.
Cultures have been cross-fertilizing each other since the beginning of history, but now the snowflake community has demonized the process. If an older, more dominant culture influences a newer one, it's called "colonialism." If the transfer of culture goes in the other direction, it's called "appropriation."
"Of course intellectuals are disdained. Thought is dead."
There's noting new about anti-intellectualism. What is new, and scary, is that it is happening on college campuses.
Churchill is not mentioned in this article, though Stapledon did influence a number of other writers, most notably Arthur C. Clarke.
Only now are our detection methods getting refined enough to see Earthlike worlds. We have been amazed by the number of large planets we have been seeing everywhere we look. Now prepare to be amazed by the proliferation of Earthlike planets.
The Navajo plant outgasses into the Grand Canyon, where sunlight acting on it produces smog. Let's close it and add another unit to Palo Verde.
Not to mention certain dams in California.
If only they'd listened to the environmental groups and shored it up during that long drought....
Had we listened to Greens, there would be no more dams.
But to address the bridge inspection problem, I say: Hire more trolls!