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  The internet is killing storytelling by Ben Macintyre | Times Online

  Narratives are a staple of every culture the world over. They are disappearing in an online blizzard of tiny bytes of information. Click, tweet, e-mail, twitter, skim, browse, scan, blog, text: the jargon of the digital age describes how we now read, reflecting the way that the very act of ...

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  Polymath - a "Renaissance men" - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  A polymath ( Greek polymathēs, πολυμαθής, "having learned much") is a person whose expertise fills a significant number of subject areas. In less formal terms, a polymath (or polymathic person) may simply refer to someone who is very knowledgeable. Most ancient scientists were polymaths by ...

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  Ray Kurzweil: By 2040 you will be able to upload your brain... | The Independent

  ...or at least that's what Ray Kurzweil thinks. He has spent his life inventing machines that help people, from the blind to dyslexics. Now, he believes we're on the brink of a new age – the 'singularity' – when mind-boggling technology will allow us to email each other toast, run as fast as ...

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  The State of Information by Michael Betancourt | CTheory.net

  A concern with paradoxes is one of the hallmarks of the twentieth century. The transformation from a deterministic, clockwork universe in the nineteenth century to the probabilistic one of quantum physics marks a radical shift not only in the thinking about the physical world, but in how that ...

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  How to Measure What We Don't Know | PhysOrg.com

  How do we discover new things? For scientists, observation and measurement are the main ways to extract information from Nature. Based on observations, scientists build models that, in turn, are used to make predictions about the future or the past. To the extent that the predictions are ...

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