Wired’s July issue featured a problematic infographic based on the FDA’s food pyramid, Wired’s infographic instead focusing on one’s media intake. It is reproduced below: Read More
On Wolfram Alpha and the Singularity
Although Wolfram Alpha (WA) entered the tech ideaspace as a revolutionary new tool, it is the latest iteration of a solution to an old problem – the process of question answering (think ask.com), a part of the larger field of information retrieval (think Google).
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Request For An Honest Interrogation of Games – Counterpoint to Jon Radoff
Jon Radoff’s recent defense of games, “Six Wonderful Things About Games” managed to raise my hackles. In this article, he rehashes a number of contrarian, Everything Bad Is Good For You type assertions (which book is indeed cited in the original post) regarding the theoretical benefits of games: they make people smarter, inspire curiosity, build creativity, aid in socialization, and can even end war. However, he makes the mistake of positing these benefits as present-day real benefits instead of potential benefits. Read More »