Control de la mente. Vaya estupidez.Lo cierto era que todo el mundo tenía la mente controlada, y todo el mundo se congratulaba por ello. Los controladores de mente más poderosos del mundo eran los pad...
Computers were built in the late 1940s because mathematicians like John von Neumann thought that if you had a computer—a machine to handle a lot of variables simultaneously—you would be able to predic...
Como bien sabes, una cosa puede ser precisa o imprecisa, independientemente de tus opiniones.
Classically, the ability to invent and execute plans was believed to be limited to only three species: chimpanzees, gorillas, and human beings.
Classically, the ability to invent and execute plans was believed to be limited to only three species: chimpanzees, gorillas, and human beings. Now
Chaos theory throws it right out the window. It says that you can never predict certain phenomena at all. You can never predict the weather more than a few days away. All the money that has been spent...
Changes can occur very quickly. Human beings are transforming the planet, and nobody knows whether it’s a dangerous development or not. So these behavioral processes can happen faster than we usually...
By the early 1960’s America had reluctantly come to realize that it possessed, as a nation, the most potent scientific complex in the history of the world. Eighty per cent of all scientific discoverie...
But we have soothed ourselves into imagining sudden change as something that happens outside the normal order of things. An accident, like a car crash. Or beyond our control, like a fatal illness. We...
But then, things never turn out the way you think they will.
But it was one thing to release a population of virtual agents inside a computer's memory to solve a problem. It was another thing to set real agents free in the real world.
But as a professor who was popular with his students—and who advocated general education—Thorne found himself swimming against the tide. The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized kn...
But absence of proof is not proof of absence.
Broadly speaking, the ability of the park to control the spread of life-forms. Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Pa...
Beyond a fence, they came to the swimming pool, which spilled over into a series of waterfalls and smaller rocky pools. The area was planted with huge ferns. Isn’t this extraordinary? Ed Regis said. E...
Because raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place.
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.
And it turns out, again and again, that living things seem to have a self-organizing quality. Proteins fold. Enzymes interact. Cells arrange themselves to form organs and the organs arrange themselves...
And Kelly was beginning to see that Sarah didn’t let anything stop her, she just went and did it. This whole attitude of not letting other people stop you, of believing that you could do what you want...
All right, Malcolm said. Let’s go back to the beginning. He paused, staring at the ceiling. Physics has had great success at describing certain kinds of behavior: planets in orbit, spacecraft going to...