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Libraries in the Digital Age: A Case Study in Equipping Librarians with the Tools of Idea Management - Forte Labs
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falling public expenditures on research and development (R&D) as a share of gross domestic product (GDP), especially in information technology.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
80% of the work and impact is social and institutional, 20% of the work and impact is technical.
Welcome to Smalltown, a Civic Space Online - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst
Unquestionably, Yokoi needed narrow specialists. The first true electrical engineer Nintendo hired was Satoru Okada, who said bluntly, “Electronics was not Yokoi’s strong point.” Okada was Yokoi’s codesigner on the Game & Watch and Game Boy. “I handled more of the internal systems of the machine,” he recalled, “with Yokoi handling more of the d
... See moreDavid Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social st... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
The revolutions in biotech and infotech are currently being started by engineers, entrepreneurs, and scientists who are hardly aware of the political implications of their decisions, and who certainly don’t represent anyone.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
