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Strong-armed into compassion | Wendy M Grossman

"We acknowledge that we have failed to live compassionately and that some have even increased the sum of human misery in the name of religion," states Karen Armstrong's Charter for Compassion. We need, she wrote here last week, to appreciate how little ...

From WENDY M GROSSMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Karen Armstrong,  Douglas Adams,  TED

Being green is no religion | Wendy M Grossman

Judging from what I read many men who pay for sex want a straightforward transaction where their money buys them the prostitute's body and acting talent, but stops short of acquiring her heart and passion. Some jobs are like that. The head of a large ...

From WENDY M GROSSMAN, Comment Is Free,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: BBC

£8,000 projector is indie cinema's future

A scene from the 2008 film Sita Sings the Blues. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features Light work … digital projection provides indie cinemas and film-makers with more screening options Photograph: Sunset/Rex Features The picture ...

From WENDY M GROSSMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  8 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Leica

You've got to hand it to them

Pointing the way … Shadow’s robot hands even have fingernails. Photo: Felix Clay Some people dream of climbing Mount Everest; Richard Greenhill dreams of a general-purpose robot that can bring you a cup of tea. Greenhill is the archetypal eccentric ...

From WENDY M GROSSMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  13 May 2009
Related Topics: Carnegie Mellon University

Why machines are bad at counting votes

Click the box … voters from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during last November’s presidential election hope their ballots won’t be ‘erased’. Photograph: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images It's commonly said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again ...

From WENDY M GROSSMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  29 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Diebold

Virtually quite useful

Second Life may be pretty empty these days, but don't write off the alternative world entirely Because the DWP's area is closed to the public, we can't really tell what it's doing there. But it says – and I can believe it – that it, like IBM, Dell, and ...

From WENDY M GROSSMAN, Comment Is Free,  22 Mar 2009
Related Topics: IBM,  Department for Work and Pensions,  Xerox,  Twitter Inc,  Adidas

Why you can't find a library book in your search engine

Despite the internet's origins as an academic network, when it comes to finding a book, e-commerce rules. Put any book title into your favourite search engine, and the hits will be dominated by commercial sites run by retailers, publishers, even ...

From WENDY M GROSSMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Wikipedia

Wendy M Grossman on the heavy-handed tactics picture agencies use when pursuing payment

Steep price for a steeple: a church was charged £6,000 for the use of two images on its website. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters The perennial tale about church fundraising is that it's to rebuild the steeple. But one church in Lichfield, Staffordshire, ...

From WENDY M GROSSMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  26 Nov 2008

Intel's Rattner says the machines will get us in the end

PROBABLY the CTO of every large technology company has to be a futurist. But it's a rare CTO who speaks at the Singularity Summit to consider the prospects for an artificial general intelligence surpassing humans. But Intel's CTO, Justin Rattner, laid ...

From WENDY M GROSSMAN, Inquirer,  12 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Intel,  Jeff Hawkins,  Google Inc.

Will machines outsmart man?

Wendy M Grossman on the progress being made in the development of artificial intelligence which it is expected to surpass that of humans between 2030-50, and how it offers the prospects of ...

From WENDY M GROSSMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Ray Kurzweil,  Intel,  Freeman Dyson,  Google Inc.,  Dharmendra

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