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Type: fiction

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Status: to read

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Author: W. Daniel Hillis

2006-01-10

 

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Type: educational

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Umberto Eco

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Tags: philosophy language cognitive learning

2005-12-08

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Type: educational

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Umberto Eco

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Tags: philosophy education culture media language community learning

2005-11-27

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Flann OBrien

2005-10-15

 

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Type: documentary

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Status: favorite

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Author: Thomas Hylland Eriksen

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Tags: family anthropology philosophy culture internet time

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Description: A nice critique of information-driven time, and how time is being continuously broken up intoA nice critique of information-driven time, and how time is being continuously broken up into smaller and smaller chunks, filled with disconnected, non-organic bits. The author's thesis is that in the industrial age, there was a lack of information; in the information age, there is a lack of freedom from information. The only shortfall in my mind is that the author is often too critical of the information age and not enough of previous ages; it sometimes seems like the author is longing for days-gone-by (which may or may not be as wonderful as they seemed at the time). Well worth the read, and an important reminder....

2005-10-15

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Type: educational

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Jared Diamond

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Tags: history anthropology environment

2005-09-24

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Douglas Coupland

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Description: freaky

2005-09-18

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Type: special

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Status: I recommend

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Author: James Kochalka

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Tags: philosophy comics essays graphic

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Description: Graphic essays on life, the universe, and everything (and the nature of comics as medium andGraphic essays on life, the universe, and everything (and the nature of comics as medium and art form)....

2005-09-18

 

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Type: educational

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Kieran Egan

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Tags: development philosophy education culture cognitive learning

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Description: An interesting approach to the educational system as well as a philosophy of learning. TheAn interesting approach to the educational system as well as a philosophy of learning. The author posits that Western society's development is recapitulated in the individual's development. Has merit; not a complete answer....

2005-09-18

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Type: fiction

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Status: now reading

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Authors: Umberto Eco Geoffrey Brock

2005-09-06