"One implication is that 25, 50, 250 years from now, we become a kind of clinical-trial society in which empirically driven decisions are constantly popping up. But by clinical-trial society, I mean all sorts of questions, because the information net becomes so rich — and the capacity to understand or deconvolute that information, because of … Continue reading Clinical Trial Society
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Computational Thinking
"Computational thinking assumes that perfect information about the past can and should be collected and synthesized to inform decisions about the future." —John Thomason, "Is It Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than the End of the Internet?" The Intercept, November 24, 2018. A review of the book, New Dark Age: Technology and … Continue reading Computational Thinking
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