23.Sep.2010 Quote – “I am not praising China…”
I am not praising China because I want to emulate their system. I am praising it because I am worried about my system. In deliberately spotlighting China’s impressive growth engine, I am hoping to light a spark under America. Thomas Friedman, Too Many Hamburgers? in the NYTimes
10.Aug.2010 Quote – Education and the Recession
In the early 20th century, Europe decided that a high school education would be wasted on the masses. The United States instead made high school universal, and its newly skilled work force helped build everything from the hugely productive factories of the Midwest to modern Hollywood to the world’s most innovative retail and technology sectors. Over [...]
27.Jul.2009 OMGROBOTS
NYTimes published a recent article that all but predicts the end of days, as brought by the metal/plastic hands of robots. Nice. The researchers…generally discounted the possibility of highly centralized superintelligences and the idea that intelligence might spring spontaneously from the Internet. But they agreed that robots that can kill autonomously are either already here [...]
