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Manhattan project, development of nuclear weapons, history of science of the 20th century. Art collage with a nuclear explosion

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Peter Biles
Date
May 20, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Technology

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Atomic bomb, film, Movies and TV, Oppenheimer, Technology, World War II}

“I Can Perform This Miracle”

_{The new "Oppenheimer" trailer gives a chilling hint of the atom bomb race} _{Peter Biles
May 20, 2023

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Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Interstellar, is breaking ground in the historical film genre with his upcoming film Oppenheimer starring Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, and Emily Blunt. The film, currently slated for release in July, has a chilling new trailer that gives a larger sense of the movie’s scope, and the profound moral dilemma at the heart of the creation of the atomic bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer was the theoretical physicist largely responsible for the develop of the bomb in World War II. The new trailer emphasizes the United States’ fierce “arms race” with Germany. In the trailer, Oppenheimer says, “We’re in a race against the Nazis. And I know what it means Read More ›

A glacial rivers from above. Aerial photograph of the river streams from Icelandic glaciers. Beautiful art of the Mother nature created in Iceland. Wallpaper background high quality photo

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News
Date
May 17, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
addiction, AI, Artificial Intelligence, mind matters, Podcast, Robert J. Marks, social media, Technology, Trail Life}

The Solution for Tech Addiction

_{Trail Life USA is a way to get guys off their phones and into the wilderness} _{News
May 17, 2023

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In a recent Mind Matters podcast episode, host Robert J. Marks spoke with Kent Marks, former Boy Scout guide who now works with Trail Life USA. In the wake of Boy Scouts’ precipitous decline over the last decade, Trail Life offers boys the chance to get outside and go on wilderness adventures. This is a huge opportunity to help young men get off the screens and into the beauty of creation. Speaking about the gravity of the problem, Robert said, The impact of social media has just been terrible. Teenage suicides are up, depression rates are up. I think a third of all girls involved in social media have body image problems. And that’s terrible. These are the symptoms of Read More ›

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News
Date
May 16, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Facebook, Meta, metaverse, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Virtual Reality}

Sorry Mark, but the Metaverse Failed

_{The metaverse was supposed to change everything. Now it feels like an old fantasy project} _{News
May 16, 2023

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The metaverse was supposed to change everything. That was the claim, at least. A couple of years ago it was very much the talk of the town in Silicon Valley and became Mark Zuckerberg’s choice darling, but it now seems that Big Tech’s affair with virtual reality was short-lived, or at least will need to be shelved for the foreseeable future. Why? What happened? Well, a couple of things. First of all, the economy slowed down, COVID hit, and later, executives wanted workers to return to the office for work. The metaverse was supposed to be a way to achieve total remote work, but apparently, not every company is interested in that setup. Combined with major layoffs at Zuckerberg’s Meta, Read More ›

Couples Dancing And Drinking At Evening Party

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News
Date
April 12, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
community, friendship, social media, society, Technology, The New Atlantis}

Friendship in the Technological Age

_{Even though our generation has a bad set of cards, how can we respond?} _{News
April 12, 2023

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It is easy to criticize social media, new technology, and artificial intelligence. To be fair, the automobile and the smartphone alone are at least partially to blame for how fragmented and isolated we’ve become as Americans. But it’s also necessary to find hope and a sense of solution. Leaving it at the negative can be depressing and leave us feeling more helpless than hopeful. Clare Coffey is a writer from Idaho who acknowledges the ways technology has transformed our society, in many ways for the worse, but then recalibrates the discussion around solution in a new article from The New Atlantis. Even though our generation has a bad set of cards, how can we respond? Coffey offers a bullet point Read More ›

Young woman relaxing at winter sea beach. Traveler resting by blue mountain

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News
Date
April 7, 2023

Categorized
Technology

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addiction, Andrew McDiarmid, Big Tech, Discovery Institute (mission), Life, Purpose, Technology, thinking}

In Defense of Daydreaming

_{Andrew McDiarmid encourages people to set aside their devices and embrace the discomfort of silence} _{News
April 7, 2023

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At the end of the day, do you ever feel like you’ve ingested so much information but have thought and contemplated so little? When do we take the time to simply be quiet and think? Discovery Institute’s Andrew McDiarmid encourages people to set aside their devices and embrace the discomfort of silence in a piece from The Epoch Times. He writes, A recent study reported in the Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests that the act of “just thinking” can be more rewarding than we might realize. The authors of the paper acknowledge that the ability to engage in internal thoughts without external stimulation is a unique characteristic in humans, yet we regularly underappreciate the benefits of doing so. This constant feed of Read More ›

Business times concept people walking overlay with time clock

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News
Date
March 29, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
Arts & Culture, Literature, Silicon Valley, Tech, Time, Wired}

It’s About Time

_{The cliche phrase "time is money" needs to be subverted by better metaphors, according to Odell} _{News
March 29, 2023

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Artist and writer Jenny Odell, author of the new book Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, was recently interviewed by Wired. Odell’s 2019 book is called How to Do Nothing. In the interview, Odell discussed how the invention of the clock has altered the way people think about time, labor, and productivity. The cliche phrase “time is money” needs to be subverted by better metaphors, according to Odell, ones that emphasize meaning instead of mere activity. When she was asked how she avoided productivity “burnout” in her own writing life, Odell responded, If you’re not thinking of time as money, the other thing that you could be trying to find is meaning. That’s ultimately what I want out Read More ›

Artificial intelligence. Microchip connections, electric pulses and binary codes.

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
March 20, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
Computation, Computer Systems, Computers, Electronics, Engineering, Pi, Wi-Fi}

The Raspberry Pi Phenomenon

_{A Raspberry Pi is a full computer that is not much larger than a credit card, but still packs enough power to be usable as a desktop computer} _{Jonathan Bartlett
March 20, 2023

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For the uninitiated, the Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer that runs the Linux operating system. It can be either operated as a desktop computer or as an embedded system (i.e., a custom electronic device), or both. Historically, computer systems were either general-purpose computers or embedded systems. General-purpose computers required too much hardware, too many chips, and too much power to work inside an electronic device. However, as manufacturers packed more and more functionality into less and less space using less and less power, eventually it became possible to have a computer that was small, cheap, powerful, and not especially power-hungry. The Raspberry Pi came about right as this was happening. A Raspberry Pi is a full computer that is not much Read More ›

Cyber relationships on the Internet. Connected people. People and microchips. Cybernetic society. Alone in the net.

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News
Date
March 2, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
Culture, Jacques Ellul, Salvo, Self, society, Technology, Western}

The Technological Society We Live In

_{In today's world, we think we can solve everything through technique. How's that going for us?} _{News
March 2, 2023

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In a blog post this week from Salvo, Joshua Pauling cites the influential thinker Jacques Ellul on the development of a “technological society” in Western culture. Pauling writes, Even in the mid-20th century, Ellul, a French philosopher and theologian, saw technique and efficiency coming to consume every aspect of life and society. As he defined it in The Technological Society (originally entitled La Technique in French), technique is the “totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency in every field of human activity” (xxv). Just as the factories of the industrial world were optimized according to new standards of efficiency, now everything is measured, recorded, analyzed through a lens of efficiency, and then submitted to a technique to maximize outcomes according to Read More ›