Reading Wealth of Nations and Meeting Adam Smith
To measure the Wealth of Nations, you had to inspect the shirts on people’s backs and the shoes on their feet.
The Compatibility Trap
As the titans of big tech see it, the reticence to upgrade is nothing less than resistance to progress. But a willingness to upgrade does not benefit customers in the long run.
Opinion Fetishism
Posted on March 30, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Opinions by the score in the Ancient Greek agora.
Without the distance between self and thought, self and utterance, we are unable to entertain, probe, or debate ideas.
Goodbye to All This
by
B.D. McClay
Posted on March 19, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: An illustrated hedgehog. Via Wikimedia Commons.
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In memory of a happy half a decade.
Do We Absolutely Disagree?
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on March 9, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Foreground: “The Happy Marriage,” seventeenth century allegorical engraving; background: late nineteenth century printing of “Areopagitica,” art by Lucien Pissaro.
Well known free speech advocates may not always be free speech absolutists.
Informational Man
Posted on March 4, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Judson Rosebush, "Letter Field," April 22, 1978, Syracuse University. Calcomp plotter computer output with liquid inks on rag paper, 15.25 x 21 inches. Via Wikimedia Commons.
We are creating algorithms to solve our problems that often inadvertently end up creating misalignments between our intentions and their end results.
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