Salim Ismail is the executive director of Singularity University. He explains that the U researches how to understand non-linear phenomena. I ask him whether that understanding has to be emergent.
Sahara Byrne, from the Dept. of Communication at Cornell U., is giving a Tuesday Berkman lunch, titled “Parent versus Child: Reports of Internet Behaviors and Support for Strategies to Prevent Negative Effects of Online Exposure.”
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Seth Godin has compiled a whole bunch of 200-word mini-essays from a whole bunch of people. We had to pick a topic that matters now, in part because the anthology is called What Matters Now. It’s free. (Thanks, Seth!)
I wrote about “difference,” a...
I just listened to a report on the BBC news about a woman in Chicago who had to wait three months to go to a doctor after discovering lumps in a breast and an armpit. She had just started a new job and her medical insurance didn’t kick in until she...
