essays and ideas from Eliza Sarobhasa
Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that presumes that a society’s technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values.
Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that presumes that a society’s technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values.
via Technological determinism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Strauss-Howe generational theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Strauss and Howe lay the groundwork for the theory in their 1991 book Generations, which retells the history of America as a series of generational biographies going back to 1584.[1]
In their 1997 book The Fourth Turning, the authors expand the theory to focus on a fourfold cycle of generational types and recurring mood eras in American history.[2]
The theory was developed to describe the history of the United States, including the 13 colonies and their Anglo antecedents, and this is where the most detailed research has been done. However, the authors have also examined generational trends elsewhere in the world and identified similar cycles in most of today’s developed countries.[3]
Someday, every home may have its own Holodeck. If that happens, how will virtual reality change people’s lives?
via: Which World Is Real? The Future of Virtual Reality – A Virtual Future, Changing the Brain, Connection or Isolation?, Computer Addicts.
Specialty Research Unit in Natural Language Processing and Intelligent Information System Technology (NAiST) was established in 1996. We aim to research,design and develop applications, which can analyze, understand and generate languages,that human use naturally on Text, Speech and Image based on Natural Language Processing Technique.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) researches are essential to the enhancement of computer capability to process human-being language. Result of the researches originated various technique and computational linguistic theorem which cause the business software such as a language translator, automatic text extraction, information retrieval by using user own language as well as writing erificvation.
via NAiST.
A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter : The New Yorker
The article described the extreme simplicity of the tribe’s living conditions and culture.
The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few”—terms of quantification believed by some linguists to be among the common building blocks of human cognition.
“…A perfected bodyguard, whose only form of communication was literacy in body language, and whose sole instinct was for hand-to-hand combat. ”
via Lady Shiva – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia