@bwatwood thinking of your medical interests, here is a biome-based line of work in personalised diagnosis and effective treatment of prostate cancer (aka medical breakthrough): https://t.co/FYuzkox71r
@paulg most policy & strategy advisors I know have a list of huge problems that they've "been warning us about for years" - but are kicked down the road as "ignorable, too expensive". Meanwhile, the problems magnify until they can't be ignored.
@EdTechMuser Dr Roulette W Smith is the key example of an early black innovator in ed tech (eg as a co-founder of Instructional Science; as an early PhD in ed tech at Stanford with Prof Pat Suppes; and today as a researcher in AI in medicine.
@EdTechMuser My Instructional Science colleagues in its first decade (eg Andy Di Sessa, Brian Lewis, Gordon Pask, Roulette Smith, Richard Mayer, Michael MacDonald-Ross) discussed Learning Science as a title, and published "Towards a Theory of Telling" in IJMMS
Man tries to eat ... sheep thwarts man ... donkey thwarts man ... sheep beats man again ... man ... back to square one ... minus food = living with nature ๐๐๐ด๐
Consumers are soft targets for greedy taxes (rents) on the know-how and user benefits embedded in todayโs products and services. Lock-in and extortionate taxes can be reduced easily through mass action using open standards.
For the next decade at least, one of the biggest themes in tech will be an increasingly brutal effort by Apple to extract taxes from more and more people, and the steps they take to avoid it.
The Windows Tax was merely a metaphor. The Apple Tax will be Apple's business model.
@is_fusion indeed, ITER is awesome, eg for its cost, complexity and scale. compare with Zap Energyโs solenoid-free design, seems elegant, simple. @energy_zap
@AnnaLSchubert @ODickhauser @hbellhaeuser https://t.co/eK2tuHpuYz offers reviewers an honorarium of about $100 to keep to express schedule; unclear if the honorarium gets paid if the review is โrejectโ and the author has to rethink
@AP Wikipedia lists 100+ actual/fictional places/countries whose name ends โ-Stanโ (Persianโ, โplace ofโ). Most are at risk of emergent instability as in Almaty. The exception: Lobjanistan, the place of logical thinking, https://t.co/fauiLHNXVj