Life after Google – Uncommon Descent

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Google is doomed because it doesn’t get information theory

That’s tech philosopher George Gilder’s view: Last month, World News Daily did a three-part interview with George Gilder on the publication of Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy, which unpacks some of the book’s main ideas: Part One: “Reagan guru, predictor of iPhone foresees new web revolution” Read More…

relatd Ba77 at 9, I'm a working editor. For the record, I am FOR professionalism in journalism. The article in the... – Update on Materialism
bornagain77 Mr. Arrington, Reading some of the 'no real content' comments from atheists trying to defend the insanity of Darwinian materialism,... – Update on Materialism
relatd Jery at 37, If you're going to quote Os Guinness, do it right. Especially for those who never heard of... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
jerry Os Guinness seems to believe a religious change is necessary to save the current world. While this maybe true, it... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
relatd BA at 3, I've also been at this type of non-discussion for a long time. Lies? In the minds of... – Update on Materialism
William J Murray Origenes @61, Your inference is incorrect. There is literally no way, even in principle, I can ever know or gather... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
relatd Sad that elaborate philosophical arguments by men seek to obscure or hide obvious truths. And only truth matters, not what... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
AnimatedDust BA, after you smacked down Sev about changing the subject, he's gotten very quiet. One can hope you got through... – Update on Materialism
Origenes WJM @ Which experiments in quantum mechanics support the following: The evidence is clear: materialism/physicalism has been as scientifically disproved... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
chuckdarwin BA Assume what you want. In fact, assume arguendo that you are right. Without addressing my point, your "refutation" of... – Update on Materialism
PyrrhoManiac1 Classic. Pyrrho goes full on “insane denial.” Deny a well understood concept. In the face of correction deny, deny, deny,... – Update on Materialism
Barry Arrington Chuck, Once again, I assume you have nothing to refute the OP. Yes, I understand you want to change the... – Update on Materialism
Barry Arrington PyrrhoManiac1 For you, all the work is being done by the word “essential”. I certainly don’t know what you mean... – Update on Materialism
chuckdarwin ChuckDarwin: “at some point you will have to come up with a testable alternative model to explain behavior, including ‘beliefs.’”... – Update on Materialism
William J Murray Origenes @59, 30 years of personal, first-hand experimentation on daily basis using techniques such as meditation, visualization, affirmation, subconscious deprogramming... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
PyrrhoManiac1 I said that under materialism a brain and a liver are not ESSENTIALLY different. Pyrrho asserts that a brain and... – Update on Materialism
Origenes WJM @ Which experiments specifically have convinced you that there is “no such thing as an external, objective world, no... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
Fasteddious Why aren't materialists hyping this up as "proof of evolution"? After all, if some bacteria have histones, then they are... – At Nature: “Dogma-defying bacteria package DNA...
PyrrhoManiac1 If one can’t try to discuss a naturalistic explanation of how people might have causation and intentionality without immediately also... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
PyrrhoManiac1 @306 PM1, once one reduces to computation on a substrate, one is in a GIGO limited dynamic stochastic frame of... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
William J Murray Obviously off-topic (but it's not like the topic is going to "move forward" due to materialists suddenly having an ontology-changing... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...