By Glendronach
This is truly the one thing you MUST see on YouTube this year.
In this prescient lecture at the 2005 TED Conference, “Institutions vs. collaboration”, Clay Shirky explains how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning:
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By Dalwhinnie
One of the more amusing things about the state of modern science is the gap between what the physicists are finding, namely the incredible fine tuning which is required at every level to produce a universe in which there are intelligent observers, and the materialist doctrines of randomly self-assembling biobots that are the party line in the field of biology. The biologists rail against design, while the physicists record it in the incredible number and detail of laws that have to work out just so, sometimes to 20 orders of magnitude, to produce minds such as ours, which watch stars and listen to Mozart.