02 MAR 2019 by ideonexus
Knowledge Work
The growing importance of knowledge as an economic resource reflects the fact that, as economies and production technologies develop, they become ever more complex and specialized, leading to increasing coordination costs. In the language of information economics, the organizational or informational task of coordinating the diverse steps in the productive chain grows, as the number of transactions within and among productive units increases (Joncher, 1983). Logically, the increasingly complex...Folksonomies: knowledge work symbolic work
Folksonomies: knowledge work symbolic work
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notesKnowledge is becoming increasingly specific. Professionals of all types are managing larger quantities of sybolic reasoning. Informational laborers or symbolic analysts are a growing portion of the workforce.
27 DEC 2016 by ideonexus
Thin Slices of Joy
“Right now, I’m a little thirsty, so I will drink a bit of water. And when I do that, I experience a thin slice of joy both in space and time,” he told CBC News. “It’s not like ‘Yay!”” he notes in Joy on Demand. “It’s like, ‘Oh, it’s kind of nice.’”
Usually these events are unremarkable: a bite of food, the sensation of stepping from a hot room to an air-conditioned room, the moment of connection in receiving a text from an old friend. Although they last two or th...Folksonomies: happiness well-being
Folksonomies: happiness well-being
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notes05 FEB 2016 by ideonexus
Idea Debt
Idea Debt is when you spend too much time picturing what a project is going to be like, too much time thinking about how awesome it will be to have this thing done and in the world, too much time imagining how cool you will look, how in demand you’ll be, how much money you’ll make. And way too little time actually making the thing.
If…
You tell 15 friends about your screenplay idea, but devote zero time in your week to facing the blank screen.
You buy a domain name, spend weeks or mont...Folksonomies: productivity
Folksonomies: productivity
1 15 FEB 2015 by ideonexus
The Market Forces Driving AI
Pretty soon, it will be possible to buy artificially brained robots that perform useful tasks around the house. If the price of such robots can be made affordable, then the demand for them will be huge. I believe in time that the world economy will be based upon brain-based computers. Such devices will be so useful and so popular that everyone on the planet will want to own them. As the technologies and the economics improve, the global market for such devices will only increase to the point ... 1 notes
notes15 JAN 2015 by ideonexus
The Common Task
The learned, who have fragmented science into a multiplicity of branches, imagine that the calamities that strike and oppress us are within the competence of specialised disciplines to control, whereas in fact they constitute a single problem common to all of us, namely the lack of kinship relations between a blind force and rational beings. This blind force makes no demand on us other than to endow it with what it lacks: rational direction, or regulation. Yet no regulation is possible owin... 1 notes
notes21 APR 2014 by ideonexus
The Extended Peer Community
The perspective of Funtowicz and Ravetz on post normal science [59] – characterized by conflicting values and deep uncertainties – is useful in moving forward on messes and wicked problems. When the stakes are high and uncertainties are large, Funtowicz and Ravetz point out that there is demand by the public to participate and assess quality, which they refer to as the extended peer community. The extended peer community consists not only of those with traditional institutional accreditat... 1 notes
notesAn argument for open science that we should bring climate change science to the public to appeal on science not consensus.
17 JUN 2013 by ideonexus
The Surveillance Ecosystem
Lifeloggers capture every instant of their existence
for their own reference. XP stars live, love, and die
with passionate abandon so everyone can enjoy it
on demand. Habitats depend on constantly updated
operational and environmental data as well as troops
of transhuman observers to function seamlessly and
provide the day-to-day necessities of transhuman
life. Hypercorps, governments, organizations, and
individuals safeguard the information they need to
survive and seek out what they need to... 1 notes
notesA futuristic peak at the world of public sharing and private protection and the different motivations for them.
23 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Naming the Science of Probability
A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science:
'The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take place.'
'The measure of the probability of an event is the ratio of the number of cases favourable to that event, to the total number of cases favourable or contrary, and all equally possible' (equally like to happen).
From these definitions it follows that the word probability,... 1 notes
notesA definition of the early field of mathematics.
20 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Predators Prevent Their Prey from Suffering
The appointment of death by the agency of carnivora, as the ordinary termination of animal
existence, appears therefore in its main results to be a dispensation of benevolence; it deducts much
from the aggregate amount of the pain of universal death; it abridges, and almost annihilates,
throughout the brute creation, the misery of disease, and accidental injuries, and lingering decay;
and imposes such salutary restraint upon excessive increase of numbers, that the supply of food
maintains per...Stephen Jay Gould quoting the Reverend William Buckland.
