The problem you have when a group iscentered on its beliefs as opposed to its goalsis that if any of the beliefs do not line up with the facts, it is going to be very hard to change them. This goes double if these beliefs are wrapped up in their religion such that they believe tha...
There is a lot of debate about the failure to improve productivity, in the UK at least. As we now live in a knowledge economy, I am convinced that adopting the approaches set out in this book would have a huge impact on personal and organisational productivity. Done well, it could also ...
Machine vision is one of the main applications of artificial intelligence. In China, the machine vision industry makes up more than a third of the national
such that the rich have a higher proportion of income relative to the rest of the society. I added thisvariableto my dataset to see ifinequality is related to media distrust, as has been suggested in the literature on this topic.
Through self-deprecating humour, students create an inverse attention economy of competitive one-downmanship, where the goal is to display humorous failure instead of perfect appearance. Our analysis shows that students use humour to express, share, and commiserate over daily struggles, but also...
Built in the 1960s, it was the first to show what could happen if you emphasized the network rather than the computer. During the birth pangs of the Information Revolution, computing power was precious. It was the era of the mainframe, massive heaping computers the size of entire rooms, ...
Housing encompasses more than just the concept of "a house" itself. It includes the meme value of the right to housing, the renewable resource value of material ownership, and the finite resource value of spatial ownership. If everyone in society only strives to achieve the indicator of "the...
Worse, perhaps, for the health of our public institutions, economy and the democratic rule of law, how long before this type of infantilizing meme-merchandising infects the body politic at the most basic level and in everyday ways?
(reminiscent of those your mum might send you home with), the question ‘what are you cooking?’ that accompanies a fresh meat order to make sure you get the perfect cut, and the familiar tone they use to talk about food (“*that” Fanta - if you know, you know”) all make Oja ...
With mounting rage toward everyone around them, if they cannot direct that rage they turn it inward and die, by any means at hand; heart attack, food poisoning, stroke, diabetes, literally eating themselves to death.The meme is in our lives already. Spreading through our technology, our ...