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Us, Robots. Are we losing our Minds?

I read an interesting post by a student writing for his school newspaper, today. It prompted all kinds of thoughts.

The post inspired me to write a long comment to it, which you can also read at the above page (if you’re bored).

Combined with having watched the great Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot” on the tube last night, I was prompted, once again, to consider what computers, calculators, the tube, etc. are doing to us, as a global society.

Obviously, considering the medium we are using, I am not a Luddite. Far from it. I like tech. But I like it to further my understanding and appreciation for life, not to nullify it.

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Math Textbooks, Incompetence and Corruption

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Here’s a link to a post about a quote from Richard Feynman, concerning math textbooks.

Richard Feynman was a brilliant physicist, physics professor and Nobel Prize winner, and author of the wonderfully titled, “What do You care what Other People Think?”

His iconoclastic way of thinking and [...]