Robert Wright’s followup to The Moral Animal, one of my favorites and a life-changing read. This, too, has vast implications and is exhaustively researched and annotated.
Barabasi, author of Linked, has an interesting article at the NYTimes on the recent power outages and how their severity is due mostly to our interconnectedness.
Went to a talk this Wednesday about “customer relationship management systems“–basically call support centers and the software that runs them. Interesting to me was the fact that basically untrained employees come in to work, and sit down at a computer that prompts them to ask certain questions of the caller–so in theory, the computer is…more
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, 1953 In this bestseller, sociologist Glassner indicts the media on several counts of fear-mongering, and…more