Fascinating Blog Is the study of Bullshit itself bullshit? Bullshit may be the dominant form of expression in the early 21st century: we've reached…BenjaminDecember 8, 2015
Fascinating Blog What “Big Data” doesn’t understand about literature could fill a book that it would never read Hey, remember how the internet was going to end racism? How the digital revolution would…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015
Fascinating Blog My Favorite Luddite – and the nature of cultural suicide Complaining about new technology is a genre at least as old as the printing press,…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015
Fascinating Blog Reason I don’t trust Google #4 – they have no sense of the limitations of their own culture It seems obvious in hind-sight that Google’s infamously difficult job interview questions weren’t actually going…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015
Fascinating Blog Let’s map the cracks in reality! William Eggington has an essay in the New York Times’ “The Stone” blog about the way in…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog “Innovation” is for poor people I’d been meaning to write about the so-called “essay grading” software programs in the context of Evgeny…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog How transparent do we want our technology to be? I’m becoming a bigger and bigger fan of Evgeny Morozov, author of “To Save Everything,…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog If Aristotle covered it, it’s not news The great value of science is in its capacity to prove counter-intuitive concepts. But like…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog What have you done for a cyborg lately? I’m not the least surprised by this article noting how vital human judgment is to the smooth…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog Have scientists invented rat telepathy? I was shocked when I read media reports about an experiment in which a lab…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015