Not correct. Genius, inspiration, and even luck will always be the driving factor of individual discoveries.
Polymerase Chain Reaction was discovered by Mullis while working at home, when he microwaved the DNA solution in a flash of inspiration. He got a Nobel prize for this discovery.
Einstein was working as a clerk in Swiss Patent Office when he came up with the theories of Relativity, as well as some other papers on the nature of light. He was 26.
What you are describing sounds a lot like the "mentats" in the "Dune" series.
In reality, however, I doubt if we are ever going to overcome the human & legal issues that would certainly arise from creating a race of supercomputing humans just to use them as our calculators. Or something.
No, you don't seem to "get it". The point was that in a country, you GENERALLY do not get prime ministers and the like from among suppressed groups that have undergone genocide.
I don't understand what your sentence means (really), but you are right, it probably does not matter.
Turkey is a country trying to stumble along on the road to a western style democracy. Not only have the poor bastards started rather late, but they also have the additional misfortune of having taken on the religion of the Arabs some centuries ago. I just don't think it is fair to attack this country on the basis of some deportation/killing of their Armenian populace (who really should not have conspired with the Russians) at the time of WWI, the sins of which should be on the late Ottoman Empire and not on Turkey.
As for the Kurdish problems, granted that the state policy is not only oppressive but also stupid, at the wake of 9/11 you might begin to appreciate how a state might feel compelled to use force in fighting a terrorist organization (a separatist one) whose pyromaniac tendencies have cost upwards of 30,000 lives in the past decade.
Honestly, I do not want to live in a world where "Starship Troopers" makes it into any "Best Of" list. The worst book of Robert Heinlein, apparently written for the Beverly Hills 90835 (or whatever) generation, dealing with the very basic issues (like honor, love, duties) on a teenage level.
Yuck.
Turkey did not fight in WWII. They got in at the last minute, on the side of the winners, to benefit from the end results.
As for WWI, present day Turkey cannot be held responsible for anything that the Ottoman Empire of the day might have done (including Armenian killings & deportation), any more than modern day Italy and Italians can be held responsible for atrocities (including feeding slaves to lions in theaters) of the Roman Empire.
... that turkey has had kurdish heads of parliament and kurdish prime ministers...
I don't recall many prominent political figures of jewish origin in germany, for example...
in this context, what you call "intuition" is just conclusions from past experiences - a police looks around and recognizes some behaviour patterns, which leads him to search some people and leave alone others... this is no mystical feat in the crystal ball category, but patterns that a machine can be taught to recognize...
I do not claim to know as much on the chemical and ecological issues regarding to global warming, but seem to recall something called the kyoto agreement which was effectively killed by the most important contributor of the so-called greenhouse gases to the planet's atmosphere...
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Polymerase Chain Reaction was discovered by Mullis while working at home, when he microwaved the DNA solution in a flash of inspiration. He got a Nobel prize for this discovery.
Einstein was working as a clerk in Swiss Patent Office when he came up with the theories of Relativity, as well as some other papers on the nature of light. He was 26.
In reality, however, I doubt if we are ever going to overcome the human & legal issues that would certainly arise from creating a race of supercomputing humans just to use them as our calculators. Or something.
I don't understand what your sentence means (really), but you are right, it probably does not matter.
Turkey is a country trying to stumble along on the road to a western style democracy. Not only have the poor bastards started rather late, but they also have the additional misfortune of having taken on the religion of the Arabs some centuries ago. I just don't think it is fair to attack this country on the basis of some deportation/killing of their Armenian populace (who really should not have conspired with the Russians) at the time of WWI, the sins of which should be on the late Ottoman Empire and not on Turkey.
As for the Kurdish problems, granted that the state policy is not only oppressive but also stupid, at the wake of 9/11 you might begin to appreciate how a state might feel compelled to use force in fighting a terrorist organization (a separatist one) whose pyromaniac tendencies have cost upwards of 30,000 lives in the past decade.
Honestly, I do not want to live in a world where "Starship Troopers" makes it into any "Best Of" list. The worst book of Robert Heinlein, apparently written for the Beverly Hills 90835 (or whatever) generation, dealing with the very basic issues (like honor, love, duties) on a teenage level. Yuck.
I second the nomination.
I would like to humbly point out David Cronenberg's "eXistenZ" as an essential to any Sci-Fi "Best Of" list.
Turkey did not fight in WWII. They got in at the last minute, on the side of the winners, to benefit from the end results. As for WWI, present day Turkey cannot be held responsible for anything that the Ottoman Empire of the day might have done (including Armenian killings & deportation), any more than modern day Italy and Italians can be held responsible for atrocities (including feeding slaves to lions in theaters) of the Roman Empire.
... that turkey has had kurdish heads of parliament and kurdish prime ministers... I don't recall many prominent political figures of jewish origin in germany, for example...
in this context, what you call "intuition" is just conclusions from past experiences - a police looks around and recognizes some behaviour patterns, which leads him to search some people and leave alone others... this is no mystical feat in the crystal ball category, but patterns that a machine can be taught to recognize...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/gold.html here's one theory...
I do not claim to know as much on the chemical and ecological issues regarding to global warming, but seem to recall something called the kyoto agreement which was effectively killed by the most important contributor of the so-called greenhouse gases to the planet's atmosphere...