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S1E4: A Proxy Word For Progress
25 minutes Posted Jul 1, 2014 at 8:01 am.
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Elijah Meeks, Jason Heppler, and Paul Zenke discuss disruption, progress, and the genius myth.

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  • Urban Dictionary: Spacist

    An individual that discriminates, or holds an unfounded bias against sci-fi movies, books, or fans. Typically anything space-ship, robot, or future related is the target of ridicul or strange looks from Spacists.

  • 2013: The Year in Interactive Storytelling - NYTimes.com

    From a ship in the South China Sea to the cost of health care in the United States, the range of subjects here is broad, but the common thread is the form of storytelling — an integration of text, video, photography and graphics.

  • Brogrammer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Brogrammer, etymologically a neologism formed as a portmanteau of the fraternity-derived “bro” and “programmer”, is the identifier of a subculture that self-describes as aiming to make programmers more sociable. A simpler definition is that a brogrammer is a macho programmer.

  • Progress (history) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    In historiography and the philosophy of history, progress (from Latin progressus, “an advance”) is the idea that the world can become increasingly better in terms of science, technology, modernization, liberty, democracy, quality of life, etc.

  • Well, That About Wraps it up for Clayton Christensen | The Scholarly Kitchen

    But what about Ford, Jobs, Musk, Bezos? What about ‘em? Sure they are geniuses. Sure their ideas were or are miles ahead of the competition – light years out in fact. Sure they saw clearly what the rest of us can only dimly comprehend, if at all. So what. Here’s the truth. You never hear about the genius who didn’t make it big, who blew all their capital on an equally great idea that never went mainstream and reconstructed the economic fabric of their worlds. Somebody gets lucky. Somebody always gets lucky. The overwhelming majority, well, they are grist to the mill.

  • Irony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Irony (from Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία (eirōneía), meaning “dissimulation, feigned ignorance”[1]), in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event characterized by an incongruity, or contrast, between what the expectations of a situation are and what is really the case, with a third element, that defines that what is really the case is ironic because of the situation that led to it.

  • Atlas Shrugged - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The book depicts a dystopian, post-apocalyptic United States, wherein many of society’s most prominent and successful industrialists abandon their fortunes and the nation itself, in response to aggressive new regulations, whereupon most vital industries collapse.

  • Our Mission | | Academic Technology Specialists

    Stanford’s Academic Technology Specialists work in alignment with the University’s commitment to excellence in education and its general vision to improve teaching, learning, and research by implementing and developing new technologies. Academic Technology Specialists collaborate with faculty and staff in departments or programs and provide leadership in innovative uses of information technology for education and research.

  • Danielle Bunten Berry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 – July 3, 1998), born Daniel Paul Bunten, and also known as Dan Bunten, was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E. (one of the first influential multiplayer games), and 1984’s The Seven Cities of Gold.

  • M.U.L.E. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    M.U.L.E. is a seminal multiplayer video game by Ozark Softscape. It was published in 1983 by Electronic Arts. It was originally written for the Atari 400/800 and was later ported to the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and the IBM PCjr[2] Japanese versions also exist for the PC–8801,[3] the Sharp X1,[4] and MSX 2 computers.[5] While it plays like a strategy game, it incorporates aspects that simulate economics.

  • Educational entertainment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Educational entertainment (also referred to by the portmanteau edutainment[1]) is any content that is designed to educate as well as to entertain. There also exists content that is primarily educational but has incidental entertainment value, as does content that is mostly entertaining but have some educational value.

  • The Oregon Trail (video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974. The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail.

  • Come September | Arundhati Roy

    Transcription of Arundhati Roy reading and Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation, Lensic Performing Arts Center Santa Fe, New Mexico, 18 September 2002

  • Vannevar Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Vannevar Bush (/væˈniːvɑr/ van-nee-var; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, whose most important contribution was as head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) during World War II, through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project.

  • Memex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The memex (a portmanteau of “memory” and “index”[1] or “memory” and “extender”) is the name of the hypothetical proto-hypertext system that Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article “As We May Think” (AWMT).

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