What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?
On New Year's Day in 1985, Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 was carrying 29 passengers and a hell of a lot of contraband when it crashed into the side of a 21,112-foot mountain in Bolivia. For decades conspiracy theories abounded as the wreckage remained inaccessible, the bodies unrecovered, the black box missing. Then two friends from Boston organized an expedition that would blow the case wide open.
The Weird Economics Of Ikea.
Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene.
One way or another, then, we are going to be sharing the planet with a lot of non-biological intelligence. Whatever it brings, we humans face this future together. We have an obvious common interest in getting it right. And we need to nail it the first time round. Barring some calamity that ends our technological civilisation without entirely finishing us off, we’re not going to be coming this way again.
Being moral means you can never do enough.
Consequentialism is the moral theory that we are obligated to do whatever would have the best consequences. If that entails great sacrifice, then great sacrifice is what consequentialism demands we undertake.
In a highly indebted world, austerity is a permanent state of affairs.
Left or Right, they are all riding debtor anger against creditor strength. It might be expressed as anger against, variously, ‘trade’ or ‘the elite’ or the ‘EU’. But what’s underneath all that is the politics of debt.
The National Archives launches an online resource of GIFs from its collections of historic film, photography, art, and animation.
Yesterday is over. Today is almost gone. Tomorrow is a new beginning.
Interaction Design is dead. What now?
Selected talks by Daniel Grumiller’s START group “Black Holes”.