One purpose of the Long Now Clock is to encourage long-term thinking. Aside from the Clock, though, what do you think people can do in their everyday lives to adopt or promote long-term thinking?
Is there any data about what percentage of passengers actually have their laptops searched? Even anecdotal data from recent months? Are they making an issue out of things like downloaded mp3s, movies, and software?
It's interesting to think that, with 99% accuracy at the country level, 30 million Americans could theoretically have the same problem as the submitter. At that point advertising revenue becomes significant, not to mention availability of online shopping.
Many academic journals are gradually moving online. Some are moving towards free open access (a great idea given the ultimate purpose of academic research and the public funding behind it). And some publish each article as it becomes ready, rather than gathering them up and waiting for a full issue -- the Journal of Ecocriticism is an example. Considering the benefits of a proper peer review system, I don't see any reason why journals would become obsolete; they just have to evolve along with information technology.
University students write long documents, and make up a big part of the laptop market. I'm going to have to buy a new laptop just as I start work on my thesis, and I'm not happy that Mac sells only widescreen laptops. It's strange that there haven't been loud complaints about this, but I suppose people have simply been taught that widescreen is desirable.
I'm disappointed that the slashdot editors changed "person" to "man" in the title. Disappointed too that the article uses the word "man" to refer to a generic person. I thought that kind of terminology had been left behind.
Theorist Donna Haraway argues that we are already cyborgs, inextricably intertwined with our technologies. Some would say that cyborgism began with the invention of the first tools. Tools change the user into a different being capable of different behaviour. A carrier bag changed us from foragers to gatherers; a spear turned us into hunters. When your identity is altered by technology are you not a cyborg? Transforming ourselves is something we have always done.
For the same reason that airplanes have black boxes. No one's using the black boxes as an excuse to neglect safety concerns. Things go wrong, and it's useful to know why.
For those of us who choose to take action, the David Suzuki foundation (based in Canada, but relevant everywhere) lists the 10 most important things you can do.
Can anyone explain the drop-off in early 2004? The funny thing is, the same thing happened to me -- my spam-ridden hotmail account received next to no spam for a period of four or five weeks.
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One purpose of the Long Now Clock is to encourage long-term thinking. Aside from the Clock, though, what do you think people can do in their everyday lives to adopt or promote long-term thinking?
Is there any data about what percentage of passengers actually have their laptops searched? Even anecdotal data from recent months? Are they making an issue out of things like downloaded mp3s, movies, and software?
It's interesting to think that, with 99% accuracy at the country level, 30 million Americans could theoretically have the same problem as the submitter. At that point advertising revenue becomes significant, not to mention availability of online shopping.
Many academic journals are gradually moving online. Some are moving towards free open access (a great idea given the ultimate purpose of academic research and the public funding behind it). And some publish each article as it becomes ready, rather than gathering them up and waiting for a full issue -- the Journal of Ecocriticism is an example. Considering the benefits of a proper peer review system, I don't see any reason why journals would become obsolete; they just have to evolve along with information technology.
University students write long documents, and make up a big part of the laptop market. I'm going to have to buy a new laptop just as I start work on my thesis, and I'm not happy that Mac sells only widescreen laptops. It's strange that there haven't been loud complaints about this, but I suppose people have simply been taught that widescreen is desirable.
I'm disappointed that the slashdot editors changed "person" to "man" in the title. Disappointed too that the article uses the word "man" to refer to a generic person. I thought that kind of terminology had been left behind.
Theorist Donna Haraway argues that we are already cyborgs, inextricably intertwined with our technologies. Some would say that cyborgism began with the invention of the first tools. Tools change the user into a different being capable of different behaviour. A carrier bag changed us from foragers to gatherers; a spear turned us into hunters. When your identity is altered by technology are you not a cyborg? Transforming ourselves is something we have always done.
When my mom gets a window asking her to "save this file to disk" she thinks it means a floppy disk.
For the same reason that airplanes have black boxes. No one's using the black boxes as an excuse to neglect safety concerns. Things go wrong, and it's useful to know why.
For those of us who choose to take action, the David Suzuki foundation (based in Canada, but relevant everywhere) lists the 10 most important things you can do.
Can anyone explain the drop-off in early 2004? The funny thing is, the same thing happened to me -- my spam-ridden hotmail account received next to no spam for a period of four or five weeks.