Thought provoking
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (Russian: Николай Фёдорович Фёдоров; 9 June 1829 – 28 December 1903), known in his family as Nikolai Pavlovich Gagarin, was a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, religious thinker and futurologist, library science figure and an innovative educator. He started the movement of Russian cosmism which was a precursor of
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Classic lines fm Wm Wordsworth
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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Excellent analogy of the data sphere we are now in the early stages (2024) of creating. The richness of the images gives purpose to my desire to return to serious study of the emerging AI field.
The text is taken from 1st page of Chapter 33 of Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Sounds like a barn-burner of a premise, color me intrigued
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🥳 Anxiety is the flip side of the awareness coin. And vice versa, obviously. 😂🥸
🥳 Anxiety is the flip side of the awareness coin. And vice versa, obviously. 😂🥸
Getting hi is such a revelation!
Critics and readers tend to be insufferable nostalgics. In a letter he sent from exile in 1513, Niccolò Machiavelli described his evening routine: After coming home from the “vulgarity” and “trifles” of daily life, he donned “garments regal and courtly” to commune with the dead. Reading those before him, he was “not frightened by death,” and instea
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On the value of curiosity, versus self-assurance