By Daniel Henninger WSJ 8/7/2019 The online forum 8chan is better known than it was last week because the El Paso shooter, Patrick Crusius, uploaded his “manifesto” to the site before he murdered 22 people. 8chan has also been linked to the mass murder in Christchurch, New Zealand,... Read more
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Not to Late to Quit Social Media – Cal Newport
January 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Personal Development, TechnologyShould be required reading for all. [As in ‘everyone’]. ===== WSJ 1/26/2019 by By Kate Bachelder Odell Americans may not agree on much, but here’s one point of consensus: Social media isn’t entirely wonderful. Facebook has its privacy scandals, and who would join Twitter for the camaraderie? This week an ugly online mob demonstrated the point by setting upon a... Read more
The Interconnected World and Martin Luther?
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Interesting, TechnologySome thoughts about how things change, and yet how much stays the same… ========= By Niall Ferguson Originally published in The Sunday Times, October 1, 2017 Just as Martin Luther’s utopian vision and the invention of the printing press led to an era of religious war and turmoil, the internet, hailed as a portal to a better world, is threatening democracy The hyperconnected world was... Read more
The Computer that could Rule the World
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Military, Technology, Western CivilizationThis makes me nervous. ====== WSJ – 10/28/2017 By Arthur Herman During World War II the federal government launched the Manhattan Project to ensure the U.S. would possess the first atomic bomb. Seventy-five years later, America is in another contest just as vital to national security, the economy and even the future of liberal democracy. It’s the race to build the first fully operational... Read more
Fake News and the Digital Duopoly
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, TechnologyIf you think Google, Facebook, or even LinkedIn, are ‘charities’ and primarily concerned with the task of “serving mankind” I would say you are deluded. ========== By Robert Thomson WSJ 4/5/2017 ‘Fake news” has seemingly, suddenly, become fashionable. In reality, the fake has proliferated for a decade or more, but the faux, the flawed and the fraudulent are now pressing issues because the... Read more
Bill Gates on Robots
March 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Tax Issues, TechnologyBill Gates is a smart guy, but I think he is missing the point with his view of robots and the impact on jobs. ===== WSJ 4/26/2017 By Andy Kessler Bill Gates, meet Ned Ludd. Ned, meet Bill. Ludd was the 18thcentury folk hero of anti-industrialists. As the possibly apocryphal story goes, in the 1770s he busted up a few stocking frames—knitting machines used... Read more
