""Toy Chest" collects online or downloadable software tools/thinking toys that humanities students and others without programming skills (but with basic computer and Internet literacy) can use to create interesting projects."
"Environmentalists who favor restriction of lead in electronic circuits point out that the reactor didn't actually explode, and that we shouldn't have nuclear reactors, anyway. I don't find that response very satisfying."
“Initially when we hook up this brain to a flight simulator, it doesn’t know how to control the aircraft,” "The computational property is actually an emergent property of hundreds or thousands of neurons cooperating to produce the processing power o
"Finally, the social welfare result that a Windows monopoly is not always worse than a Linux-Windows monopoly was also unexpected. This questions the social desirability of policies aimed at guaranteeing Linux's survival."
"Stable traditional civilizations were built to resist change. This entailed either resisting new technology or channeling the effects of new technology into socially acceptable patterns."