Mikko hypponen biography of abraham lincoln
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Continuum is a Canadian science fiction series in which the world, by year 2077, fryst vatten run bygd huge hi-tech corporations and is heavily surveilled with few freedoms. The only dissenters are a terrorist organization called Liber-8. When Keira Cameron, a cyber-enhanced cop, attends the execution of a captured group of Liber-8 she’s thrown back in time along with them, to year 2012. Through the 3 seasons you learn that everything the world goes through fryst vatten consequence of the invention of a wearable bracelet called Halo. A wearable device which measures grundläggande statistics, amount of sova, food intake, exercise, etc., and also sends signals to the brain to correct any problem it may detect… By year 2077 Halo is used to control the world population.more–>
Back in our time we have corporations like Apple and Microsoft creating devices which can measure our vitals, we are in the middle of the internet of things boom and as F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer, Mikko Hyp
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2021
November
“Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.”
Clive James, was an Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster and writer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019.
October
“I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.”
Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science.
September
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
John Maeda is an American executive, designer and technologist. His work explores the area where business, design, and technology merge to make space for the “humanist technologist.”
August
“We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.”
Jeff Atwoodis an A
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The Curated Links at 3QD *
by Akim Reinhardt
I first heard “The Blundering Generation” in the 1990s when I was taking a course on Civil War history. As my professor explained, the early 20th century saw a new cohort of historians who no longer personally remembered the war and debated anew the nature of its origins. They were trying to move past the earlier, caustic interpretations of Northerners and Southerners who openly blamed each other, the former decrying the Southern “slaveocracy” and the latter bemoaning the “war of Northern aggression.” So instead, these thinkers at the vanguard of historical study decided to blame everyone. Or no one.
One new interpretation was The Irrepressible Conflict: Increasingly divergent economic, social, and cultural differences between the North and South were so profound and so deeply rooted, that the war was essentially unavoidable. Oh well. The other new viewpoint was The Blundering Generation: The Civil War, tragically, had been entirely