Author Archives: Mike Reeves-McMillan

Dec 08

Having read The Economics of Machinery and Manufacture by Charles Babbage (yes, that one), I know that new…

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Having read The Economics of Machinery and Manufacture by Charles Babbage (yes, that one), I know that new manufacturing techniques and technological breakthroughs have been rapidly dropping the prices of goods for a couple of hundred years now. The article gives some good recent examples.

This reduction in the cost of living could make a big difference to the feasibility of a universal basic income, which wouldn’t have to be nearly as large.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

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Dec 08

I believe it’s important to think about the implications of any trope you’re using, but this one is particularly…

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I believe it’s important to think about the implications of any trope you’re using, but this one is particularly important.

Originally shared by The Mary Sue

Is there a way to include sexual assault in a TV storyline that DOESN’T perpetuate rape culture?

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Dec 08

They grow live bones out of fat cells and transplant them in actual people. It works.

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Originally shared by Daniel Lemire

They grow live bones out of fat cells and transplant them in actual people. It works.

http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/12/05/lab-grown-bones-successfully-transplante?videoId=370635787&feedType=nl&feedName=Technology&videoChannel=6&utm_term=US+Technology+Report&utm_content=buffere4639&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Dec 06

Sharing to read later.

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Sharing to read later.

Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

UBI – Universal Basic Income. Think it’s too socialistic? What if you add a free market on top of it? Thoughts?

Pro – article: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/universal-basic-income/

Against – article: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436621/universal-basic-income-ubi-terrible-idea?client=safari

Historical – article: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mincome/

https://futurism.com/true-freedom-comes-with-basic-income/?utm_content=bufferfa57b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Dec 05

While the article itself undermines its unmodified claim that “Wheatley was the first person of African descent to…

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While the article itself undermines its unmodified claim that “Wheatley was the first person of African descent to publish a book,” this is interesting.

Originally shared by The Public Domain Review

Phillis Wheatley, the first ever African-American woman to be published, died today in 1784. Vincent Carretta looks at her remarkable life: http://buff.ly/2gTJLSE

Dec 04

I think my favourite thing about this is that the solutions the algorithms come up with don’t look much like the…

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I think my favourite thing about this is that the solutions the algorithms come up with don’t look much like the ones that humans create – they look much more like natural objects.

Combine this with the extremely detailed modelling of reality that quantum computing is poised to make possible, and the world in a few years will look very different from the design future we’ve been imagining.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

“The evolutionary approach is particularly useful in areas where there are a large number of potential solutions — for example, designing new materials.”

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