Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Sunday, January 27, 2019
SCIENCE: The Engine That Powers the World
The most important technology BY FAR of the 21st Century was actually developed in the later days of the 19th: the diesel engine.
2019-01-27 [P-B]
SCIENCE: How to Make Petrol or Gas from Crude Oil.
How to take Texas crude oil, and turn it into something that powers cars and trucks. It's all about heat.
2019-01-27 [P-B]
Thursday, August 16, 2018
TECHNOLOGY: Rage Against the Social Media Machine
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Length: 00:13:38
How technology is ruining us, especially social media.
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Length: 00:13:38
How technology is ruining us, especially social media.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2018
CULTURE: The Origins of Our Second Civil War
Wednesday, August 01, 2018
Victor Davis Hanson explains the dangers of technology in the 21st century:
The mass production of cheap consumer goods, most assembled abroad, redefined wealth or, rather, disguised poverty. Suddenly the lower middle classes and the poor had in their palms the telecommunications power of the Pentagon of the 1970s, the computing force of IBM in the 1980s, and the entertainment diversity of the rich of the 1990s. They could purchase big screens for a fraction of what their grandparents paid for black-and-white televisions and with a computer be entertained just as well cocooning in their basement as by going out to a concert, movie, or football game.
But such electronic narcotics did not hide the fact that in terms of economics the lifestyles of their ancestors were eroding. The new normal was two parents at work, none at home; renting as often as buying; an eight-year rather than three-year car loan; fewer grandparents around the corner for babysitting or to assist when ill; and consumer service defined as hearing taped messages of an hour before reaching a helper in India or Vietnam.
High-tech gadgetry and the power to search the Internet did not seem to make Americans own more homes, pay off loans more quickly, or know their neighbors better. If in 1970 a nerd slandered one on the sidewalk and talked trash, he might not do it twice; in 2018, he did it electronically, boldly, and with impunity behind an array of masked social-media identities.
Read more here: The Origins of Our Second Civil War
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Victor Davis Hanson explains the dangers of technology in the 21st century:
The mass production of cheap consumer goods, most assembled abroad, redefined wealth or, rather, disguised poverty. Suddenly the lower middle classes and the poor had in their palms the telecommunications power of the Pentagon of the 1970s, the computing force of IBM in the 1980s, and the entertainment diversity of the rich of the 1990s. They could purchase big screens for a fraction of what their grandparents paid for black-and-white televisions and with a computer be entertained just as well cocooning in their basement as by going out to a concert, movie, or football game.
But such electronic narcotics did not hide the fact that in terms of economics the lifestyles of their ancestors were eroding. The new normal was two parents at work, none at home; renting as often as buying; an eight-year rather than three-year car loan; fewer grandparents around the corner for babysitting or to assist when ill; and consumer service defined as hearing taped messages of an hour before reaching a helper in India or Vietnam.
High-tech gadgetry and the power to search the Internet did not seem to make Americans own more homes, pay off loans more quickly, or know their neighbors better. If in 1970 a nerd slandered one on the sidewalk and talked trash, he might not do it twice; in 2018, he did it electronically, boldly, and with impunity behind an array of masked social-media identities.
Read more here: The Origins of Our Second Civil War
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