Sam Liebeskind

Technology cannot fix the fact that freedom is an endless meeting, but it can make the meetings shorter and less painful with new collaborative tools and by automating the worst of the bureaucracy

We have allowed today’s students to speed along the information superhighway without so much as a driver’s permit.

But long before the internet, philosophers and religious leaders theorized a global connectivity, or collective consciousness. In 1922, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin coined the term “Noosphere”, or the “thinking layer” of the earth, networking all human thought. In the internet era, his predictions have become surprisingly accurate, now starting to... See more

Bring cucumbers on a hike/bike/strenuous activity! They’re 96% water and provide a big burst of hydration if you’re running low on agua.

Bonsai implements a platform-agnostic framework comprising Planning, Sourcing, Curating, and Ranking modules

So there is a way in which Shabbat is more philosophically important now than it has been in previous centuries. And of course, there’s also the secondary element, around 100 years old, of Shabbat being defined by the kinds of technologies that we do not engage in on that day, which was not something that Shabbat was designed for. Shabbat took on... See more