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The Agony and Ecstasy—and 'Disgrace'—of Steve Jobs | The Nation →
Far more significant are the societal roles Jobs played. And here, despite the myriad ways his companies improved our lives, Jobs was a hero only in the Ayn Randian sense.
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The power of lonely - The Boston Globe →
You hear it all the time: We humans are social animals. We need to spend time together to be happy and functional, and we extract a vast array of benefits from maintaining intimate relationships and associating with groups. Collaborating on projects at work makes us smarter and more creative. Hanging out with friends makes us more emotionally mature and better able to deal with grief and stress.
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Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen - cartoon Recombinant Records →
Brave New World vs. Nineteen Eighty-Four. An illustrated summary of Neil Postman’s analysis.
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White Men With Guns--Reconstruction Redux - Keka - Open Salon →
Any country which has gotten to the point where it’s president can be caricatured and spoken of as he has been in the graphics I’ve supplied, many of them brandished at Tea Party events…is in trouble. Free speech? You bet. But what that right is being used to say and do right now is a chilling statement about where we are as a nation right now.
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Schneier on Security: Worst-Case Thinking →
The new undercurrent in this is that our society no longer has the ability to calculate probabilities. Risk assessment is devalued. Probabilistic thinking is repudiated in favor of “possibilistic thinking”: Since we can’t know what’s likely to go wrong, let’s speculate about what can possibly go wrong.
