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Universities should reclaim their proper standing as leaders in developing world-changing technologies for the good of humankind. (Harvard, Stanford, and MIT could invest in creating a consortium for such an effort—their endowments are worth roughly $110 billion combined.)
Gift Article: The Rise of Techno-Authoritarianism
Adrienne LaFrance
Perhaps something has occurred in the history of the concept of structure that could be called an “event,” if this loaded word did not entail a meaning which it is precisely the function of structural—or structurality—thought to reduce or to suspect. But let me use the term “event” anyway, employing it with caution and as if in quotation marks. In this sense, this event will
have the exterior form of a rupture and a redoubling.
1966 lecture: “Structure, Sign, of the Human Sciences”
þÿbuszekme
More than one-third of schoolchildren in the East Palo Alto school district, the town neighboring Facebook’s headquarters, are homeless. Envisioning a different sort of mobility hub, the superintendent has proposed outfitting the school parking lot to accommodate RVs and those living in cars.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
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