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Tag Archives: H. G. Wells
Maybe the Algorithms are Working Against Us
Most news, internet search, and social media platforms have optimized their offerings to suit what their viewers most frequently choose to see. That makes sense in terms of ad dollars, for they want to have a targetable demographic, but as … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Internet, Media, News, Politics, Social Media, Teaching
Tagged Corporate responsibility, echo chamber, Education, Facebook, H. G. Wells, mass shootings, media, Religion, right-wing politics, school shootings, Social Media, twitter, white supremacy, World Brain
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The Flat Earth Experience
In his The Time Machine Weena tries to throw herself in the fire because she has never seen flames before. She doesn’t know that it will burn her and that she should exercise care. She is a figure of profound … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Culture, Supernatural, Teaching
Tagged flat earth, flat earther, flat earthers, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Weena
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The Contamination of Ideas: Truth and Lies in the Internet Age
A recent encounter reminds me that notions of knowledge and how it is gained can be subjective. I was told by a young person that a documentary watched by their mother—they didn’t even see the documentary themselves—argued that there was … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Media, News, News of the World, Social Media
Tagged a New World Order, auras, birthers, Competent Receiver, contrails behind jets, Facebook bubble, fact checkers, flat earth, Fox News, H. G. Wells, holocaust denial, homeopathy, Indonesia, Malaysia, Muslim-majority countries, Muslims, post-fact world, power of prayer, prayer, refrigerator lights, santa, sunspots and climate change, the flood in Genesis, the use of fluoride, the world trade centre bombing, Trump, UFOs, vaccines, weather control, white supremacy, World Brain
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Monkeys on the Internet
We have all become aware of bad behaviour online, and from that, we have learned that our neighbours, who we always guessed were tolerant, joyful, and open-minded, think quite differently than us. Given cause to reflect on our own public … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Superstition
Tagged 4chan, Ani DiFranco, big thinks, creationism, H. G. Wells, John Stuart Mill, reddit, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Utilitarianism
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How We Write the Future
Whenever I think of writing about the future, I always remember those early writers of science fiction beginning in the forties and extending into the seventies, Heinlein and Asimov among them, who thought we’d be smoking in spacesuits, and that … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature, Singularity, Writing
Tagged Electric Ant, Flight to Forever, H. G. Wells, Men Like Gods, Philip K. Dick, Poul Anderson
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