From the monthly archives:
May 2009
Technology
As it kept coming up empty, Wolfram Alpha came to seem less like HAL 9000 and more like a chatbot. It’s been trained to respond
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Culture
Parody and then some:
Many years later, and many times over, the famous writer was to remember the day he discovered how to set about
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Technology
[T]he game is pleasingly weird and a good proof of concept that a video game needn’t include any fighting or puzzles in the course of
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Culture
Better yet, theory was intent on proving the illegitimacy of all those great books he’d never read. “We skipped straight from ignorance to revisionism,” he
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Media
Rather, they are photographs that show our soldiers trying — without the proper training or equipment — to do their jobs.
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Culture
Whatever prophets of the net say, information for its own sake is not power. Power is power. The relentless gush of electronic information and invitations
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Media
The newsmags face a choice. Actually, they’ve faced it since long before the Internet. Should they try to provide a complete picture of what happened
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