From the preface to Arnold Pacey’s The Maze of Ingenuity : Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology: So far I have written about efforts to inaugurate a new direction for technical progress as if the chief problem is a lack of methods and discipline. But there are other problems too. Technology does not [...]
Interactions between people with diverse backgrounds leads to richer and more effective experiences. About two months ago I attended the 140 Character Conference in Boston. Mostly it was a bunch of white guys using phrases like “filter disintermediation”. Fortunately there was a woman who described the need to “midwife” a process, and a crazy old [...]
It takes a lot of words for academia to say “We’re can’t describe the experience of poverty”. This is from “Using a sustainable livelihoods approach to assessing the impact of ICTs in development” by Sarah Parkinson and Ricardo Ramírez: …the way development professionals conceptualise development and poverty is very different from how poor people themselves [...]
Despite it being a class on Critical Thinking I’m a little grossed out by “ethical, empathic and just” behavior being described as a deductive exercise. But then again, I did agree with Justice Sotomayor’s “wise-Latina” remark. The above is Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder’s Miniature Guide to Understanding the Foundations of Ethical Reasoning.
A girl was betrothed by her father to a man whom she had never met. Her mind shone with an uncommon light and she was ever seeking out tales of love: chaste and reckless, rich and unrequited. Into her house she called the most upstanding matrons and the lowest whores, regal queens and barren slaves. [...]
