February 2012
4 posts
Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler may suffer from...
The Authors of Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think, interviewed by Sam Harris.http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/better-than-you-think “Today, a Masai warrior with a cellphone has better telecom capabilities than the President of the United States did 25 years ago. If he’s a Masai warrior on a smart phone with access to Google, then he has access to more information than the President...
Paddy Ashdown: “The paradigm structure of our...
It’s the capacity to network that matters. “In the modern age, where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others. The most important bit about your structure, whether you’re a government, whether you’re an army regiment, whether you’re a business, is your docking points, your interconnectors, your capacity to network with...
Video game project funded in 8 hours on...
Over double their goal now… 30,027 BACKERS $1,129,803 PLEDGED OF $400,000 GOAL 32 DAYS TO GO “The world of video game design is a mysterious one. What really happens behind the closed doors of a development studio is often unknown, unappreciated, or misunderstood. And the bigger the studio, the more tightly shut its door tends to be. With this project, we’re taking that door off its hinges...
Everything and nothing
“I find the possibility of living in a universe that was not created for my existence, in which my actions and thoughts need not bend to the whims of a creator, far more enriching and meaningful than the other alternative. In that sense, I view myself as an anti-theist rather than an atheist.” Excerpted from here: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/everything-and-nothing/ Amen. It’s just more...