Posts Tagged ‘ nerds ’

Now for an update and correction…

11/6/2007

I need to post an update and correction to my review of the Nokia N800: First, “timeless,” a MicroB developer, pointed out that when the N810 is released, the clock speed on the N800 will increase through an OS tweak: For the record, it’s the same processor. When IT OS 2008 becomes available and you [...]


One month with the Nokia N800

10/24/2007

Last month, I wrote on my latest handheld acquisition: the Nokia N800. I wrote a little on my initial experiences, and pondered its use in education. Now that I’ve had this for a month, it’s time for an update. Unlike most electronics produced by Nokia, the N800 is not a phone. It is an Internet [...]


Rapture of the nerds (in Canada!)

2/9/2006

Victoria News recently published an interesting article on Singularitarians in Canada whcih compared Singularitarianism with religion: At first blush, Singularitarianism may seem like a religion and has even earned from critics the label “Rapture of the Nerds.” But Singularitarianism differs from religion in one crucial aspect: its belief doesn’t depend on a supernatural power influencing [...]


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Wikipedia big with experts?

An interesting article appeared at Ars Technica yesterday: A new salvo has been fired in the perennial war over Wikipedia‘s accuracy. Thomas Chesney, a Lecturer in Information Systems at the Nottingham University Business School, published the results of his own Wikipedia study in the most recent edition of the online journal First Monday, and he [...]


The futures of the state fair

Time for shameless self-promotion! The StarTribune is running an article on the future of the Minnesota State Fair, which contains input from Arthur Harkins and myself. From the article: “The State Fair has traditionally been a showcase, but in the future, we see it becoming much more of a collaborative, idea- and product-generating place,” said [...]


Aim higher!

The Minnesota Daily published an article on the “Leapfrog University” memo distributed by Arthur Harkins and myself.  Marni Ginther writes: Harkins and Moravec argue research and innovation must begin soon and must begin at the undergraduate level. This would involve a huge shift in the way the University – and universities across the country – [...]


The “great Singularity debate”

ZDNet is running a blog story on the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. Particular attention in the article is focused on the debate between Ray Kurzweil and Douglas Hofstader on utopian versus dystopian futures: Kurzweil acknowledged that Singularity could lead to an unappealing or cataclysmic future, but he believes his vision will have a soft [...]


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