Most of us object to more new gadgets. It's faster and efficient and flexible to peruse, buy, print and read. Witness the success of www.printandread.com.
18000 years ago Northern Europe (Scandinavia, UK), Canada, Northern US were coivered by an ice sheet 2 kilometers thick. Then it went away (end of last ice age). It is very debatable why. After last mini ice age atmospheric temperature started rising at the beginning of the XVIII century, before we began burning fossil fuel. Large climate variations are largely not understood. I analyzed MaunaLoa CO2 data using Volterra-Lotka equations: until 1976 the curve aimed slowly at 500 ppm, from 1977 to 2002 it is aiming faster at 420 ppm.I'll send 2-pages substantiation if you are interested.
Suggest:
18 QUAINT SF STORIES (short stories, incl. a love story based on information theory and the True Story of J Christ)
also
THE DEATH OF MEGALOPOLIS (novel on thedownfall of USA in 2010 due to excessive complexity of large technological systems)
can get them on www.printandread.com
These are good reads - I wrote them.
www.robertovacca.com
Sheldon Pacotti's arguments are quite stimulating. Large tech systems present other relevant risks. I contended that a major gridlock may take place in congested advanced countries/megalopolises due to inadequate competence in designing and managing large systems, in my book THE COMING DARK AGE (Doubleday 1973). I revised and updated this essay. It is available on www.printandread.com
A grievous danger resides in nontransparence of comouterized control systems - nobody knows really what they're doing and the originators are dead, have moved, have forgotten what they did.
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Most of us object to more new gadgets.
It's faster and efficient and flexible to peruse, buy, print and read. Witness the success of www.printandread.com.
18000 years ago Northern Europe (Scandinavia, UK), Canada, Northern US were coivered by an ice sheet 2 kilometers thick. Then it went away (end of last ice age). It is very debatable why. After last mini ice age atmospheric temperature started rising at the beginning of the XVIII century, before we began burning fossil fuel. Large climate variations are largely not understood. I analyzed MaunaLoa CO2 data using Volterra-Lotka equations: until 1976 the curve aimed slowly at 500 ppm, from 1977 to 2002 it is aiming faster at 420 ppm.I'll send 2-pages substantiation if you are interested.
Suggest: 18 QUAINT SF STORIES (short stories, incl. a love story based on information theory and the True Story of J Christ) also THE DEATH OF MEGALOPOLIS (novel on thedownfall of USA in 2010 due to excessive complexity of large technological systems) can get them on www.printandread.com These are good reads - I wrote them. www.robertovacca.com
Sheldon Pacotti's arguments are quite stimulating. Large tech systems present other relevant risks. I contended that a major gridlock may take place in congested advanced countries /megalopolises due to inadequate competence in designing and managing large systems, in my book THE COMING DARK AGE (Doubleday 1973). I revised and updated this essay. It is available on www.printandread.com
A grievous danger resides in nontransparence of comouterized control systems - nobody knows really what they're doing and the originators are dead, have moved, have forgotten what they did.