While differences between the rich and poor cannot be fully eliminated due to human nature and biology, balancing social inequalities is an important goal. Changes to social structures should not be forced through violence but through respectful dialogue between all involved groups, with the aim of finding a solution that satisfies everyone. In the digital age, conscious efforts need to be made through organizations to continually diminish social differences and maintain a balance that allows all individuals to live satisfied lives within their means.
The Negative Impact of the Birtual Threats to the Political Stability of the ...ijtsrd
In the following article the definitions of the virtual world, virtual world and virtual threat, the negative impact of the virtual threats to the stability of the society are analyzed from the scientific theoretical viewpoint. Also, the information on the diverse approaches to the impacts of the virtual threats to the life of the society. Nuriyman Abulkhasan "The Negative Impact of the Birtual Threats to the Political Stability of the Society" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Special Issue | Modern Trends in Scientific Research and Development, Case of Asia , October 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd35795.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/political-science/35795/the-negative-impact-of-the-birtual-threats-to-the-political-stability-of-the-society/nuriyman-abulkhasan
Super-Successful GLAMs (Text version with notes)Michael Edson
Opening remarks for The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums
Sponsored by the City University of New York Digital Humanities Initiative, November 28, 2012
Organized by Neal Stimler and Matt Gold, with Will Noel and Christina DePaolo.
http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/11/07/wednesday-november-28-the-commons-and-digital-humanities-in-museums/
Marxist view, Neo- Marxist view, Modernization, Dependency theory, world system theory, Post development theory, Sustainable development, Human development theory
The Negative Impact of the Birtual Threats to the Political Stability of the ...ijtsrd
In the following article the definitions of the virtual world, virtual world and virtual threat, the negative impact of the virtual threats to the stability of the society are analyzed from the scientific theoretical viewpoint. Also, the information on the diverse approaches to the impacts of the virtual threats to the life of the society. Nuriyman Abulkhasan "The Negative Impact of the Birtual Threats to the Political Stability of the Society" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Special Issue | Modern Trends in Scientific Research and Development, Case of Asia , October 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd35795.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/political-science/35795/the-negative-impact-of-the-birtual-threats-to-the-political-stability-of-the-society/nuriyman-abulkhasan
Super-Successful GLAMs (Text version with notes)Michael Edson
Opening remarks for The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums
Sponsored by the City University of New York Digital Humanities Initiative, November 28, 2012
Organized by Neal Stimler and Matt Gold, with Will Noel and Christina DePaolo.
http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/11/07/wednesday-november-28-the-commons-and-digital-humanities-in-museums/
Marxist view, Neo- Marxist view, Modernization, Dependency theory, world system theory, Post development theory, Sustainable development, Human development theory
Academics should reclaim their voice in society, NOW!Inge de Waard
Slides inspired on a keynote given at EDEN2016 RW in Oldenburg, Germany.
I think we (all of us academics) should start reclaiming our place in society.
Global Engagement in an Interconnected WorldSummarized from a p.docxwhittemorelucilla
Global Engagement in an Interconnected World
*Summarized from a paper by the same title, authored by Dr. John Lee, Associate Professor of Social Studies, N.C. State University
Introduction
A mother sits with her son at a computer. Music fills the room as stylishly dressed kids dance on a computer screen. The scene is a house in the Western African country of Senegal where an encouraging mother is watching a music video with her son and offering her opinion of her son’s favorite new musical group, Rania. The group is from South Korea and is part of a music phenomenon called Korean Pop (or K-Pop) that fuses electronic, hip hop, rock and R&B musical forms. The young man made a video of his mother’s opinion of the group and put it on YouTube. A South Korean musical group, singing music online that emerged in black American culture, is being shared by an African boy on a global commercial video sharing network. How did we get to this point and what are the implications of this interconnected and overlapping world for this young man’s future and the future of young people in the United States?
A certain vision of the future is already here, although unevenly represented around the world. This future is cross-cultural and supported by a global economic system of multinational interests delivered through a decentralized communications network. Young people today are growing up in an interconnected world with access to information through a wide variety of mediums and devices that support the exchange of ideas and opinions. Given that these systems for communication are in constant flux and are being rapidly developed, children must prepare for a future that will look different than the world of their parents.
Trends in Youth Global Engagement
There are six trends that will shape the global engagement of Generation Z over the next decade. Each of them is outlined below.
Trend #1 – The Emergence of an Online Global Identity
Online social networks connect people and create avenues for extending our identity. Identity is connected to our physical being, but increasingly young people are crafting online identities using social networks. Manuel Castells describes this phenomenon in his recent trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Castells argues that the organization of global economics, political and social institutions prompts individuals to create meaning in their lives through collective action. This explains why networks such as Facebook have become so popular (500 million active users), so fast (Facebook went online in 2004). The attraction of Facebook is the human interaction and collective action that it facilitates. The technology is much less important than the human activities that the technologies enable. In fact, actual interfaces such as Facebook come and go rather quickly (e.g. AOL and MySpace, both with explosive growth and quick declines). These global networks allow people to be free of their “other” identities - ...
Learning Resources· This article discusses the skepticism over.docxjeremylockett77
Learning Resources
· This article discusses the skepticism over free trade and the results for American workers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/04/opinion/sunday/our-misplaced-faith-in-freetrade.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A8%22%7D&_r=0
· A list of reviews of Thomas Piketty’s New Thoughts on Capital in the Twenty-First Century video. http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/03/25/dialogue-ten-so-far-worthwhile-reviews-of-and-reflections-on-thomas-pikettys-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century-wednesday-focus-march-26-2014/
· A video by Thomas Piketty discussing his formula for economic inequality, an existing, worsening condition with radical possible impacts. http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_piketty_new_thoughts_on_capital_in_the_twenty_first_century?language=en
Module Four
In this module, we focus on the evolution of the global and virtual (Web-based) societies of the twenty-first century. We begin by defining globalization—what it is and how it has developed through the increased sophistication of telecommunications and large, international financial systems. We then explore the individual's role in global society, and how roles in poor societies differ from those in rich societies. For example, we'll explore how the physical distance between these societies affects individuals' feelings of responsibility and involvement.
We will then investigate a new and growing society that is essentially built on physical distance—the virtual society of the Internet. In our explorations we consider two important questions: How do we interact as individuals in a Web-based society, and how can our knowledge of sociology help us to understand this world better?
Module 4
Module 4: The Individual in the Global Society
Topics
What Is Society?
Globalization and the Chasm between the Rich and Poor
The Individual in the Cyber-World
The Presentation of Self on the Internet
What Is Society?
The very definition or perception of society has changed over the last century, as its elements and functions have changed. One hundred years ago, few individuals left the community in which they were raised. Experiences in other countries, even cities, were read about in novels or discussed as tall tales and exciting adventures by those who had the rare experience of travel.
As the twentieth century wore on, jet travel and telecommunications expanded the community we all live in. We became quite familiar with the experiences of those outside of our hometown, first through motion pictures and television and then through the Internet. Cultural experiences were delivered to us through these media and broadened our view of the world and our global society, but these are virtual—not personal—experiences.
Virtual living through the media has become more common in the last decade, and much of our knowledge and many of our experiences are influenced by this virtual world: It influences how we define our identities, develop our opinions, and exercise .
Learning Resources· This article discusses the skepticism over.docxcroysierkathey
Learning Resources
· This article discusses the skepticism over free trade and the results for American workers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/04/opinion/sunday/our-misplaced-faith-in-freetrade.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A8%22%7D&_r=0
· A list of reviews of Thomas Piketty’s New Thoughts on Capital in the Twenty-First Century video. http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/03/25/dialogue-ten-so-far-worthwhile-reviews-of-and-reflections-on-thomas-pikettys-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century-wednesday-focus-march-26-2014/
· A video by Thomas Piketty discussing his formula for economic inequality, an existing, worsening condition with radical possible impacts. http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_piketty_new_thoughts_on_capital_in_the_twenty_first_century?language=en
Module Four
In this module, we focus on the evolution of the global and virtual (Web-based) societies of the twenty-first century. We begin by defining globalization—what it is and how it has developed through the increased sophistication of telecommunications and large, international financial systems. We then explore the individual's role in global society, and how roles in poor societies differ from those in rich societies. For example, we'll explore how the physical distance between these societies affects individuals' feelings of responsibility and involvement.
We will then investigate a new and growing society that is essentially built on physical distance—the virtual society of the Internet. In our explorations we consider two important questions: How do we interact as individuals in a Web-based society, and how can our knowledge of sociology help us to understand this world better?
Module 4
Module 4: The Individual in the Global Society
Topics
What Is Society?
Globalization and the Chasm between the Rich and Poor
The Individual in the Cyber-World
The Presentation of Self on the Internet
What Is Society?
The very definition or perception of society has changed over the last century, as its elements and functions have changed. One hundred years ago, few individuals left the community in which they were raised. Experiences in other countries, even cities, were read about in novels or discussed as tall tales and exciting adventures by those who had the rare experience of travel.
As the twentieth century wore on, jet travel and telecommunications expanded the community we all live in. We became quite familiar with the experiences of those outside of our hometown, first through motion pictures and television and then through the Internet. Cultural experiences were delivered to us through these media and broadened our view of the world and our global society, but these are virtual—not personal—experiences.
Virtual living through the media has become more common in the last decade, and much of our knowledge and many of our experiences are influenced by this virtual world: It influences how we define our identities, develop our opinions, and exercise ...
Providing scientific expertise for the Global South: a challenge and an oppor...Marcin Senderski
Temat konkursu zorganizowanego przez GOI Peace Foundation oraz UNESCO brzmiał w tym roku następująco: Rola nauki w budowaniu lepszego świata. Temat przewodni miał związek z ogłoszoną przez Organizację Narodów Zjednoczonych Międzynarodową Dekadą Kultury Pokoju i Niestosowania Przemocy dla Dobra Dzieci na Całym Świecie (2001-2010).
Is de hype van de circulaire economie een rem op transitie? Socrates Schouten zet meteen de toon voor onze trefdag.
De circulaire economie heeft in snel tempo veel aandacht gekregen van beleidsmakers, managers en onderzoekers. Eindelijk een formule waarmee duurzaamheid en economische groei echt te verenigen zijn, lijkt het. Maar wat is dat eigenlijk, een circulaire economie? Is het inderdaad een ecologisch en sociaal model voor werk, (co)productie en handel? De economische en technologische kijk op de kringloop die nu de boventoon voert, hindert het vernieuwende denken. Emotie, co-eigenaarschap en culturele verbeelding zijn hard nodig om de omslag te maken naar een echte circulaire samenleving.
Americas Shame Author Singer, Peter Abstract Th.docxnettletondevon
America's Shame
Author: Singer, Peter
Abstract:
The US has, for many years, been at or near the bottom of the list of industrialized countries in terms of
the proportion of national income given as foreign aid. The ignorance of Americans about their nation's
role in aiding the world's poorest people is widespread, and it has been shown in many surveys. Singer
discusses the ethical obligations of citizens of developed countries to those living in extreme poverty.
Full text:
Reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty throughout the world is clearly one of the great
moral challenges of our time. Although the issue is by no means absent from what we study and teach,
as educators in the United States we appear to be falling short in the task of ensuring that our students
are adequately informed about world poverty, its consequences, and the ways in which it can be reduced.
Is it possible that some of the reluctance to deal with the topic stems from the fact that it may have
uncomfortable conclusions for our own lives?
If we take seriously the idea that the value of a human life does not diminish when we cross national
boundaries, then we ought to be giving a much higher priority to reducing world poverty. I have in mind a
broad re-envisioning of what we teach.
We should not limit so important a topic to specialized courses on international development (valuable as
they are). The issue should be prominent in anthropology, cultural studies, economics, ethics and
sociology. In political-science courses, we should ask why we pay so little attention to people living in
poverty outside our borders. Psychology courses could take up the factors that limit our willingness to
give to distant strangers. Engineers might increase the amount of class time they devote to how their
skills can be applied to assist the world's poorest people. Medical schools could focus more on the global
burden of disease and how it might be reduced, and law students should be prompted to think about an
international legal regime that allows American oil companies to buy oil from dictators who pocket most of
the proceeds. Programs could also be produced to help to educate the broader public.
Nor should we shy away from reconsidering our emphasis on teaching in fields that have timeless artistic
and cultural value. It is legitimate to ask: In a situation in which more people die each year from poverty-
related causes than died in any one year during World War II, how much should we be spending on the
refinement of our artistic sensitivities and those of our students?
I began to think about our obligations to the poor in 1971, when I was a graduate student in philosophy at
the University of Oxford. A few years earlier, such a question would not have been considered one for
philosophers to discuss. The prevailing view then was that the business of philosophy was to analyze the
meanings of words. The linguistic analysis that preocc.
Americas ShameSinger, PeterThe Chronicle of Higher Education5.docxgalerussel59292
America's Shame
Singer, Peter
The Chronicle of Higher Education55.27 (Mar 13, 2009): B6-B10.
Abstract (summary)
The US has, for many years, been at or near the bottom of the list of industrialized countries in terms of the proportion of national income given as foreign aid. The ignorance of Americans about their nation's role in aiding the world's poorest people is widespread, and it has been shown in many surveys. Singer discusses the ethical obligations of citizens of developed countries to those living in extreme poverty.
Full Text
Reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty throughout the world is clearly one of the great moral challenges of our time. Although the issue is by no means absent from what we study and teach, as educators in the United States we appear to be falling short in the task of ensuring that our students are adequately informed about world poverty, its consequences, and the ways in which it can be reduced. Is it possible that some of the reluctance to deal with the topic stems from the fact that it may have uncomfortable conclusions for our own lives?
If we take seriously the idea that the value of a human life does not diminish when we cross national boundaries, then we ought to be giving a much higher priority to reducing world poverty. I have in mind a broad re-envisioning of what we teach.
We should not limit so important a topic to specialized courses on international development (valuable as they are). The issue should be prominent in anthropology, cultural studies, economics, ethics and sociology. In political-science courses, we should ask why we pay so little attention to people living in poverty outside our borders. Psychology courses could take up the factors that limit our willingness to give to distant strangers. Engineers might increase the amount of class time they devote to how their skills can be applied to assist the world's poorest people. Medical schools could focus more on the global burden of disease and how it might be reduced, and law students should be prompted to think about an international legal regime that allows American oil companies to buy oil from dictators who pocket most of the proceeds. Programs could also be produced to help to educate the broader public.
Nor should we shy away from reconsidering our emphasis on teaching in fields that have timeless artistic and cultural value. It is legitimate to ask: In a situation in which more people die each year from poverty-related causes than died in any one year during World War II, how much should we be spending on the refinement of our artistic sensitivities and those of our students?
I began to think about our obligations to the poor in 1971, when I was a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Oxford. A few years earlier, such a question would not have been considered one for philosophers to discuss. The prevailing view then was that the business of philosophy was to analyze the meanings of words. The ling.
Inria - Strategic Plan 2013-2017 "Towards Inria 2020"Inria
Inria has drawn up its strategic plan for 2013-2017 with the aim of contributing, in its field of scientific expertise, to meeting the social and economic challenges of our time. The plan sets out seven scientific priorities and explains the Institute's ambitions and objectives.
Real World JusticeAuthor(s) Thomas PoggeReviewed work(s).docxcatheryncouper
Real World Justice
Author(s): Thomas Pogge
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THOMAS POGGE
REAL WORLD JUSTICE
(Received 14 May 2004; accepted in revised form 3 June 2004)
ABSTRACT. Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of
human beings are still condemned to lifelong severe poverty with all its attendant
evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and
effective enslavement. We citizens of the rich countries are conditioned to think of
this problem as an occasion for assistance. Thanks in part to the rationalizations
dispensed by our economists, most of us do not realize how deeply we are implicated,
through the new global economic order our states have imposed, in this ongoing
catastrophe. My sketch of how we are so implicated follows the argument of my
book, World Poverty and Human Rights, but takes the form of a response to the
book's critics.
KEY WORDS: causal explanation, development economics, global resources
dividend, harm, human rights, inequality, justice, negative duties, world poverty,
WTO
Can normative theories about global justice benefit from empirical
theories? This is a rhetorical question
- no one seriously argues that
we should think about global justice in ignorance of the facts. And
the question is also a bit tendentious, prodding us philosophers
(heads in the clouds or buried in sand) to pay more attention to the
real world as presented, most relevantly, by development econo
mists.
I agree that many philosophers working on global justice know
too little about the real world, but I also believe that we should
absorb the theories delivered by economists with a great deal of
caution. A prominent concept in economics is that of homo eco
nomicus, an individual who, single-mindedly and rationally, seeks
optimally to satisfy his preferences. Such imaginary creatures are
not good approximations of persons in the real world. But, as
var ...
Moogfest 2014 keynote Conscious-Technology, The Millennium Project, and an In...Jerome Glenn
We are merging with technology. We will become “Conscious-Technology” beings.
Google Glass, Internet of Things, heart pacemakers, the works! Voice recognition and voice synthesis with artificial intelligence imbedded through the built environment will make inanimate objects seem conscious. We will import advance tech in and on our bodies and export our consciousness to technology. These imports/export will seem to merge into a continuum of consciousness and technology. The quality of this merger will depend on how well we can blend our mystic-self with our technocratic self, as individuals and as a species. By mystic I simply mean one whose primary focus is improving life by enhancing consciousness; by technocrat I simply mean one whose primary focus for improving life is with new technologies and policies. We are all part mystic and part technocrat, but we tend to be more of one than the other. Seeking harmony, balance, synergy between the two seems right to me. Like the musician, instrument, and music merge in a great performance.
Merging the attitudes of the mystic toward life with the technocratic’s knowledge of life makes life work and be worthwhile.
Arts, media, and music technologies can be designed and used from a mystic attitude. Experiencing performances of such technologies should enhance our consciousness. From such enhanced consciousness new technologies can be conceived. And so on to become a more aesthetic future conscious-technology civilization.
The explosive, accelerating growth of knowledge in a rapidly changing and increasingly interdependent world gives us so much to know about so many things that it seems impossible to keep up. At the same time, we are flooded with so much trivial news that serious attention to serious issues gets little interest, and too much time is wasted going through useless information.
In our Age of Information, the new catchword, Artificial Intelligence (AI) gets established more and more. Till now I heard in this context the term Digital Age or fitting for our children the combination Digital Generation. So – how to understand this catchword?
This term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a very comprehensive one. Journalists or public speakers use it actually very often, because it includes all what sounds up to date and interesting new - in life and work. Most of us know: Information Technology (IT), and Industrial Production by robots are involved. It’s fascinating but not yet exact understandable.
This term is not new; it was created about 1950 in USA but it’s content gets just now in center of actual IT-world.
Scientific thinking people need and create more staying and definitive terms. They want understand connections to the original reasons.
Therefore, I try in the following text a discussion of some headwords in this connection. We need to know, what AI is.
Im Informationszeitalter hat sich derzeit Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) als neues Schlagwort etabliert. Zuletzt habe ich in diesem Zusammenhang die Bezeichnung Digitales Zeitalter gehört. Noch schärfer ist der Ausdruck Digitale Generation für unsere Kinder. Wie soll man dieses neue Schlagwort einordnen?
Der Ausdruck Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ist eigentlich ein Sammelbegriff, der von Journalisten oder Mediensprecher gerne verwendet wird, weil er alles miteinschließt, was mit diesem brandaktuellen Thema der Gegenwart zusammenhängt und zusätzliche neueste Trends in unserer kulturellen und kommerziellen Welt der Informationstechnologie (IT) erkennen lässt.
Wissenschaftliche denkende Menschen wollen möglichst bleibende Begriffe und Ausdrücke schaffen. Das Verstehen der Zusammenhänge zu den Ursachen ist ihnen wichtiger als einfache Sensationslust.
Daher versuche ich im nachfolgenden Text, als gestandener IT-Spezialist der Pionierzeit, richtungsweisende Stichworte zu setzen - inhaltlich eher allgemein und nahezu philosophisch. Ich will hier mit möglichst wenigen, aber treffenden Worten erklären, was derzeit nur sehr vage, widersprechend, umfangreich und vielfältig vorfällt.
Academics should reclaim their voice in society, NOW!Inge de Waard
Slides inspired on a keynote given at EDEN2016 RW in Oldenburg, Germany.
I think we (all of us academics) should start reclaiming our place in society.
Global Engagement in an Interconnected WorldSummarized from a p.docxwhittemorelucilla
Global Engagement in an Interconnected World
*Summarized from a paper by the same title, authored by Dr. John Lee, Associate Professor of Social Studies, N.C. State University
Introduction
A mother sits with her son at a computer. Music fills the room as stylishly dressed kids dance on a computer screen. The scene is a house in the Western African country of Senegal where an encouraging mother is watching a music video with her son and offering her opinion of her son’s favorite new musical group, Rania. The group is from South Korea and is part of a music phenomenon called Korean Pop (or K-Pop) that fuses electronic, hip hop, rock and R&B musical forms. The young man made a video of his mother’s opinion of the group and put it on YouTube. A South Korean musical group, singing music online that emerged in black American culture, is being shared by an African boy on a global commercial video sharing network. How did we get to this point and what are the implications of this interconnected and overlapping world for this young man’s future and the future of young people in the United States?
A certain vision of the future is already here, although unevenly represented around the world. This future is cross-cultural and supported by a global economic system of multinational interests delivered through a decentralized communications network. Young people today are growing up in an interconnected world with access to information through a wide variety of mediums and devices that support the exchange of ideas and opinions. Given that these systems for communication are in constant flux and are being rapidly developed, children must prepare for a future that will look different than the world of their parents.
Trends in Youth Global Engagement
There are six trends that will shape the global engagement of Generation Z over the next decade. Each of them is outlined below.
Trend #1 – The Emergence of an Online Global Identity
Online social networks connect people and create avenues for extending our identity. Identity is connected to our physical being, but increasingly young people are crafting online identities using social networks. Manuel Castells describes this phenomenon in his recent trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Castells argues that the organization of global economics, political and social institutions prompts individuals to create meaning in their lives through collective action. This explains why networks such as Facebook have become so popular (500 million active users), so fast (Facebook went online in 2004). The attraction of Facebook is the human interaction and collective action that it facilitates. The technology is much less important than the human activities that the technologies enable. In fact, actual interfaces such as Facebook come and go rather quickly (e.g. AOL and MySpace, both with explosive growth and quick declines). These global networks allow people to be free of their “other” identities - ...
Learning Resources· This article discusses the skepticism over.docxjeremylockett77
Learning Resources
· This article discusses the skepticism over free trade and the results for American workers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/04/opinion/sunday/our-misplaced-faith-in-freetrade.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A8%22%7D&_r=0
· A list of reviews of Thomas Piketty’s New Thoughts on Capital in the Twenty-First Century video. http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/03/25/dialogue-ten-so-far-worthwhile-reviews-of-and-reflections-on-thomas-pikettys-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century-wednesday-focus-march-26-2014/
· A video by Thomas Piketty discussing his formula for economic inequality, an existing, worsening condition with radical possible impacts. http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_piketty_new_thoughts_on_capital_in_the_twenty_first_century?language=en
Module Four
In this module, we focus on the evolution of the global and virtual (Web-based) societies of the twenty-first century. We begin by defining globalization—what it is and how it has developed through the increased sophistication of telecommunications and large, international financial systems. We then explore the individual's role in global society, and how roles in poor societies differ from those in rich societies. For example, we'll explore how the physical distance between these societies affects individuals' feelings of responsibility and involvement.
We will then investigate a new and growing society that is essentially built on physical distance—the virtual society of the Internet. In our explorations we consider two important questions: How do we interact as individuals in a Web-based society, and how can our knowledge of sociology help us to understand this world better?
Module 4
Module 4: The Individual in the Global Society
Topics
What Is Society?
Globalization and the Chasm between the Rich and Poor
The Individual in the Cyber-World
The Presentation of Self on the Internet
What Is Society?
The very definition or perception of society has changed over the last century, as its elements and functions have changed. One hundred years ago, few individuals left the community in which they were raised. Experiences in other countries, even cities, were read about in novels or discussed as tall tales and exciting adventures by those who had the rare experience of travel.
As the twentieth century wore on, jet travel and telecommunications expanded the community we all live in. We became quite familiar with the experiences of those outside of our hometown, first through motion pictures and television and then through the Internet. Cultural experiences were delivered to us through these media and broadened our view of the world and our global society, but these are virtual—not personal—experiences.
Virtual living through the media has become more common in the last decade, and much of our knowledge and many of our experiences are influenced by this virtual world: It influences how we define our identities, develop our opinions, and exercise .
Learning Resources· This article discusses the skepticism over.docxcroysierkathey
Learning Resources
· This article discusses the skepticism over free trade and the results for American workers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/04/opinion/sunday/our-misplaced-faith-in-freetrade.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A8%22%7D&_r=0
· A list of reviews of Thomas Piketty’s New Thoughts on Capital in the Twenty-First Century video. http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/03/25/dialogue-ten-so-far-worthwhile-reviews-of-and-reflections-on-thomas-pikettys-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century-wednesday-focus-march-26-2014/
· A video by Thomas Piketty discussing his formula for economic inequality, an existing, worsening condition with radical possible impacts. http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_piketty_new_thoughts_on_capital_in_the_twenty_first_century?language=en
Module Four
In this module, we focus on the evolution of the global and virtual (Web-based) societies of the twenty-first century. We begin by defining globalization—what it is and how it has developed through the increased sophistication of telecommunications and large, international financial systems. We then explore the individual's role in global society, and how roles in poor societies differ from those in rich societies. For example, we'll explore how the physical distance between these societies affects individuals' feelings of responsibility and involvement.
We will then investigate a new and growing society that is essentially built on physical distance—the virtual society of the Internet. In our explorations we consider two important questions: How do we interact as individuals in a Web-based society, and how can our knowledge of sociology help us to understand this world better?
Module 4
Module 4: The Individual in the Global Society
Topics
What Is Society?
Globalization and the Chasm between the Rich and Poor
The Individual in the Cyber-World
The Presentation of Self on the Internet
What Is Society?
The very definition or perception of society has changed over the last century, as its elements and functions have changed. One hundred years ago, few individuals left the community in which they were raised. Experiences in other countries, even cities, were read about in novels or discussed as tall tales and exciting adventures by those who had the rare experience of travel.
As the twentieth century wore on, jet travel and telecommunications expanded the community we all live in. We became quite familiar with the experiences of those outside of our hometown, first through motion pictures and television and then through the Internet. Cultural experiences were delivered to us through these media and broadened our view of the world and our global society, but these are virtual—not personal—experiences.
Virtual living through the media has become more common in the last decade, and much of our knowledge and many of our experiences are influenced by this virtual world: It influences how we define our identities, develop our opinions, and exercise ...
Providing scientific expertise for the Global South: a challenge and an oppor...Marcin Senderski
Temat konkursu zorganizowanego przez GOI Peace Foundation oraz UNESCO brzmiał w tym roku następująco: Rola nauki w budowaniu lepszego świata. Temat przewodni miał związek z ogłoszoną przez Organizację Narodów Zjednoczonych Międzynarodową Dekadą Kultury Pokoju i Niestosowania Przemocy dla Dobra Dzieci na Całym Świecie (2001-2010).
Is de hype van de circulaire economie een rem op transitie? Socrates Schouten zet meteen de toon voor onze trefdag.
De circulaire economie heeft in snel tempo veel aandacht gekregen van beleidsmakers, managers en onderzoekers. Eindelijk een formule waarmee duurzaamheid en economische groei echt te verenigen zijn, lijkt het. Maar wat is dat eigenlijk, een circulaire economie? Is het inderdaad een ecologisch en sociaal model voor werk, (co)productie en handel? De economische en technologische kijk op de kringloop die nu de boventoon voert, hindert het vernieuwende denken. Emotie, co-eigenaarschap en culturele verbeelding zijn hard nodig om de omslag te maken naar een echte circulaire samenleving.
Americas Shame Author Singer, Peter Abstract Th.docxnettletondevon
America's Shame
Author: Singer, Peter
Abstract:
The US has, for many years, been at or near the bottom of the list of industrialized countries in terms of
the proportion of national income given as foreign aid. The ignorance of Americans about their nation's
role in aiding the world's poorest people is widespread, and it has been shown in many surveys. Singer
discusses the ethical obligations of citizens of developed countries to those living in extreme poverty.
Full text:
Reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty throughout the world is clearly one of the great
moral challenges of our time. Although the issue is by no means absent from what we study and teach,
as educators in the United States we appear to be falling short in the task of ensuring that our students
are adequately informed about world poverty, its consequences, and the ways in which it can be reduced.
Is it possible that some of the reluctance to deal with the topic stems from the fact that it may have
uncomfortable conclusions for our own lives?
If we take seriously the idea that the value of a human life does not diminish when we cross national
boundaries, then we ought to be giving a much higher priority to reducing world poverty. I have in mind a
broad re-envisioning of what we teach.
We should not limit so important a topic to specialized courses on international development (valuable as
they are). The issue should be prominent in anthropology, cultural studies, economics, ethics and
sociology. In political-science courses, we should ask why we pay so little attention to people living in
poverty outside our borders. Psychology courses could take up the factors that limit our willingness to
give to distant strangers. Engineers might increase the amount of class time they devote to how their
skills can be applied to assist the world's poorest people. Medical schools could focus more on the global
burden of disease and how it might be reduced, and law students should be prompted to think about an
international legal regime that allows American oil companies to buy oil from dictators who pocket most of
the proceeds. Programs could also be produced to help to educate the broader public.
Nor should we shy away from reconsidering our emphasis on teaching in fields that have timeless artistic
and cultural value. It is legitimate to ask: In a situation in which more people die each year from poverty-
related causes than died in any one year during World War II, how much should we be spending on the
refinement of our artistic sensitivities and those of our students?
I began to think about our obligations to the poor in 1971, when I was a graduate student in philosophy at
the University of Oxford. A few years earlier, such a question would not have been considered one for
philosophers to discuss. The prevailing view then was that the business of philosophy was to analyze the
meanings of words. The linguistic analysis that preocc.
Americas ShameSinger, PeterThe Chronicle of Higher Education5.docxgalerussel59292
America's Shame
Singer, Peter
The Chronicle of Higher Education55.27 (Mar 13, 2009): B6-B10.
Abstract (summary)
The US has, for many years, been at or near the bottom of the list of industrialized countries in terms of the proportion of national income given as foreign aid. The ignorance of Americans about their nation's role in aiding the world's poorest people is widespread, and it has been shown in many surveys. Singer discusses the ethical obligations of citizens of developed countries to those living in extreme poverty.
Full Text
Reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty throughout the world is clearly one of the great moral challenges of our time. Although the issue is by no means absent from what we study and teach, as educators in the United States we appear to be falling short in the task of ensuring that our students are adequately informed about world poverty, its consequences, and the ways in which it can be reduced. Is it possible that some of the reluctance to deal with the topic stems from the fact that it may have uncomfortable conclusions for our own lives?
If we take seriously the idea that the value of a human life does not diminish when we cross national boundaries, then we ought to be giving a much higher priority to reducing world poverty. I have in mind a broad re-envisioning of what we teach.
We should not limit so important a topic to specialized courses on international development (valuable as they are). The issue should be prominent in anthropology, cultural studies, economics, ethics and sociology. In political-science courses, we should ask why we pay so little attention to people living in poverty outside our borders. Psychology courses could take up the factors that limit our willingness to give to distant strangers. Engineers might increase the amount of class time they devote to how their skills can be applied to assist the world's poorest people. Medical schools could focus more on the global burden of disease and how it might be reduced, and law students should be prompted to think about an international legal regime that allows American oil companies to buy oil from dictators who pocket most of the proceeds. Programs could also be produced to help to educate the broader public.
Nor should we shy away from reconsidering our emphasis on teaching in fields that have timeless artistic and cultural value. It is legitimate to ask: In a situation in which more people die each year from poverty-related causes than died in any one year during World War II, how much should we be spending on the refinement of our artistic sensitivities and those of our students?
I began to think about our obligations to the poor in 1971, when I was a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Oxford. A few years earlier, such a question would not have been considered one for philosophers to discuss. The prevailing view then was that the business of philosophy was to analyze the meanings of words. The ling.
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Real World Justice
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THOMAS POGGE
REAL WORLD JUSTICE
(Received 14 May 2004; accepted in revised form 3 June 2004)
ABSTRACT. Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of
human beings are still condemned to lifelong severe poverty with all its attendant
evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and
effective enslavement. We citizens of the rich countries are conditioned to think of
this problem as an occasion for assistance. Thanks in part to the rationalizations
dispensed by our economists, most of us do not realize how deeply we are implicated,
through the new global economic order our states have imposed, in this ongoing
catastrophe. My sketch of how we are so implicated follows the argument of my
book, World Poverty and Human Rights, but takes the form of a response to the
book's critics.
KEY WORDS: causal explanation, development economics, global resources
dividend, harm, human rights, inequality, justice, negative duties, world poverty,
WTO
Can normative theories about global justice benefit from empirical
theories? This is a rhetorical question
- no one seriously argues that
we should think about global justice in ignorance of the facts. And
the question is also a bit tendentious, prodding us philosophers
(heads in the clouds or buried in sand) to pay more attention to the
real world as presented, most relevantly, by development econo
mists.
I agree that many philosophers working on global justice know
too little about the real world, but I also believe that we should
absorb the theories delivered by economists with a great deal of
caution. A prominent concept in economics is that of homo eco
nomicus, an individual who, single-mindedly and rationally, seeks
optimally to satisfy his preferences. Such imaginary creatures are
not good approximations of persons in the real world. But, as
var ...
Moogfest 2014 keynote Conscious-Technology, The Millennium Project, and an In...Jerome Glenn
We are merging with technology. We will become “Conscious-Technology” beings.
Google Glass, Internet of Things, heart pacemakers, the works! Voice recognition and voice synthesis with artificial intelligence imbedded through the built environment will make inanimate objects seem conscious. We will import advance tech in and on our bodies and export our consciousness to technology. These imports/export will seem to merge into a continuum of consciousness and technology. The quality of this merger will depend on how well we can blend our mystic-self with our technocratic self, as individuals and as a species. By mystic I simply mean one whose primary focus is improving life by enhancing consciousness; by technocrat I simply mean one whose primary focus for improving life is with new technologies and policies. We are all part mystic and part technocrat, but we tend to be more of one than the other. Seeking harmony, balance, synergy between the two seems right to me. Like the musician, instrument, and music merge in a great performance.
Merging the attitudes of the mystic toward life with the technocratic’s knowledge of life makes life work and be worthwhile.
Arts, media, and music technologies can be designed and used from a mystic attitude. Experiencing performances of such technologies should enhance our consciousness. From such enhanced consciousness new technologies can be conceived. And so on to become a more aesthetic future conscious-technology civilization.
The explosive, accelerating growth of knowledge in a rapidly changing and increasingly interdependent world gives us so much to know about so many things that it seems impossible to keep up. At the same time, we are flooded with so much trivial news that serious attention to serious issues gets little interest, and too much time is wasted going through useless information.
In our Age of Information, the new catchword, Artificial Intelligence (AI) gets established more and more. Till now I heard in this context the term Digital Age or fitting for our children the combination Digital Generation. So – how to understand this catchword?
This term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a very comprehensive one. Journalists or public speakers use it actually very often, because it includes all what sounds up to date and interesting new - in life and work. Most of us know: Information Technology (IT), and Industrial Production by robots are involved. It’s fascinating but not yet exact understandable.
This term is not new; it was created about 1950 in USA but it’s content gets just now in center of actual IT-world.
Scientific thinking people need and create more staying and definitive terms. They want understand connections to the original reasons.
Therefore, I try in the following text a discussion of some headwords in this connection. We need to know, what AI is.
Im Informationszeitalter hat sich derzeit Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) als neues Schlagwort etabliert. Zuletzt habe ich in diesem Zusammenhang die Bezeichnung Digitales Zeitalter gehört. Noch schärfer ist der Ausdruck Digitale Generation für unsere Kinder. Wie soll man dieses neue Schlagwort einordnen?
Der Ausdruck Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ist eigentlich ein Sammelbegriff, der von Journalisten oder Mediensprecher gerne verwendet wird, weil er alles miteinschließt, was mit diesem brandaktuellen Thema der Gegenwart zusammenhängt und zusätzliche neueste Trends in unserer kulturellen und kommerziellen Welt der Informationstechnologie (IT) erkennen lässt.
Wissenschaftliche denkende Menschen wollen möglichst bleibende Begriffe und Ausdrücke schaffen. Das Verstehen der Zusammenhänge zu den Ursachen ist ihnen wichtiger als einfache Sensationslust.
Daher versuche ich im nachfolgenden Text, als gestandener IT-Spezialist der Pionierzeit, richtungsweisende Stichworte zu setzen - inhaltlich eher allgemein und nahezu philosophisch. Ich will hier mit möglichst wenigen, aber treffenden Worten erklären, was derzeit nur sehr vage, widersprechend, umfangreich und vielfältig vorfällt.
This topic is worldwide the most important in solid Science. Every confidential and serious Scientist has to give his part to it.
Every Information Scientist has to work together in front of this worldwide most important topic!
In der Gegenwart ist es Pflicht jedes Wissenschaftlers, sich mit diesem Thema zu beschäftigen. Gerade Informationswissenschaft ist aus sich heraus dafür besonders geeignet und nutzbar.
Es ist schwer, diese Frage einzuordnen. Ist sie philosophisch, ist sie ökonomisch, soziologisch, sogar ethisch oder religiös? Dieses Thema ist eine echt aktuelle Herausforderung in unserer Informationsgesellschaft. Die Informationswissenschaft befasst sich genau damit, weil sie unsere Arbeits- und Lebenswelt im Umgang mit der Unmenge an neuen Informationen erforschen und menschengerechter ermöglichen will. Jede verantwortungsvolle Wissenschaft sollte nicht nur Detailwissen im Sinne der Altgriechischen Sophisten vermitteln, sondern auch wertvolle, geistige, philosophische Orientierungen geben können. Die Generation von Wissenschaftlern, die mit dem Computer erwachsen geworden ist und die großen Auswirkungen der modernen IT(Informationstechnologie) auf unsere Gesellschaft miterlebt hat, ist heute, etwa 70 Jahre nach dem ersten Computer, dabei, die gesamte Gesellschaft umzuorganisieren. Wir erleben unsere Kinder und Enkelkinder, die erstmals keine Erfahrungen mehr haben, wie man ohne Computer und Informationstechnologie (IT) leben kann. Wir sprechen von einer neuen Generation, der Digitalen Generation. Informationswissenschaft ist parallel zu Informatik etwa um 1968 entstanden, ein eigener Forschungszweig, an allem interessiert, was der Computer bewirkt hat. Die Faszination des technisch Neuen ist den Aufgaben aus den vorhandenen Gesamtfolgen für unsere Gesellschaft gewichen. Diese Wissenschaftler fühlen sich zu Ergebnissen verpflichtet, weil sie dieses Informationszeitalter seit Beginn und oft in führenden Stellen mitgestaltet haben. Was unserer Informationsgesellschaft fehlt, ist das Vertrauen in eine positive Zukunft, die zwar schlechter werden kann - aber eben nicht soll. Diese Arbeit, will speziell die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen in der Ökonomie, Ökologie und Arbeitswelt ins Auge fassen. Auch geopolitische Erkenntnisse sollen bedacht werden. Große, orientierende Richtlinien sollen erforscht und aufgeschrieben werden – persönliche, menschliche Grenzen des Autors können selbstverständlich nicht negiert werden.
Aus der Sicht der (neuen) Informationswissenschaft (IW) ist es ein gewagter Versuch, diese gleich direkt mit Philosophie zu vergleichen. Hier wird daher erstmals und zaghaft versucht, die tradierte Königin der Wissenschaften, Philosophie, der seit erst einem halben Jahrhundert bestehenden Informationswissenschaft gegenüber zu stellen. Es ist bis heute nicht eindeutig klar, wie dies wissenschaftlich seriös möglich überhaupt ist. SOKRATES (469 – 399 v. Chr.), PLATON (428/27- 348/47 v. Chr.) und ARISTOTELES (384 - 322 v.Chr.), als Begründer unserer traditionellen abendländischen Philosophie, haben die Suche nach dem Sinn des Daseins, des menschlichen Denkens und Handelns und der Lebensfreude als ihren Sinn, Inhalt und Ziel gesehen. PLATON hat sich von Sophisten abgegrenzt, die damals auch als „führenden Köpfe“ galten. Diese beschäftigten sich vorwiegend mit „nur“ fachlichen und sachlichen Fähigkeiten und Fakten. Heute könnten wir sagen, sie waren „nur“ Handwerker, Meister oder Fach-Ingenieure.
Philosophie hat also bis heute (seit über 20 Jahrhunderten ihres Bestehens) zu allererst die edle und hohe Aufgabe, der Religion und Ethik als geistige, vernunft- und sprachbasierte Grundlagenwissenschaft zu dienen. In der anderen Richtung diente und dient sie dazu, die gesamte Natur theoretisch, gesamtheitlich und mit menschlicher Vernunft zu bedenken. Sie ist unsere tradierte Wissenschaft geistig höchster Stufe. Alle Wissenschaften können durch Philosophie in Beziehung gebracht werden. Das ist durch die menschlichen Fähigkeiten des Erkennens, Denkens, Verstehens und Wissens möglich – für jeden der erforschen will.
Wo und wie soll man nun diesen neuen Zweig, Informationswissenschaft, einordnen? Hier werden durch einen bewusst begriffsbezogenen, abstrakten, wissenschaftstheoretischen Vergleich Antworten angestrebt.
Kann bisher nur ein aktueller genereller Überblick sein, der möglicherweise bestehenbleibende Fakten im Quantum Computing festhält. Ein detaillierter Tiefgang ist dem Autor nicht möglich, aber wertvolle Suchbegriffe und Themen sind schon wertvoll durch ihre Aufzählung. Details kann man sich ja mittels Suchmaschinen vertiefen. Auch der Orientierungswert ist gegeben.
This work can only be an actual and general overview which contains possibly staying facts in Quantum Computing. A detailed, deep research is for the author not possible but treasury Search Items and Key Words besides significant topics are interesting results by their writing down. Details can be found by every reader for himself by using Search Machines. Besides the value of scientifically Orientation is imporatnt.
Die Informatik in Ihren technischen Auswirkungen ist dem „biologischen“ Menschen sehr
nahe. Es wird notwendig, den Menschen vor Überforderung durch die Hardware der
Cyberwelt und speziell durch den maschinellen Computer selbst und seine Software
schützend abzugrenzen.
Hier wird versucht, die aktuelle wissenschaftliche Literatur zu durchforsten, um Richtwerte
für die IT (Informationstechnologie), als Realisierer von Paradigmen aus Geistes-, Humanund
Informationswissenschaften zu erhalten.
Der Mensch als Spezies hat evolutionäre Zeitmassstäbe, die Technologie aber arbeitet in
Entwicklungszeiten der menschlichen Kreativität, die unvergleichlich kürzer sind. Es ergeben
sich generell verschiedene Ablaufgeschwindigkeiten für den biologischen Menschen und seine
Umwelt einerseits und die schnelllebige IT mit ihren Anwendungen andererseits.
Die Struktur dieser Arbeit bestimmt der biologische und geistige Mensch mit seinen Sinnen,
seinen Bewegungsorganen und seinen geistigen Fähigkeiten als Ganzer. Der Mensch ist in der
Naturwissenschaft ein biologisches Objekt und in der Gesellschaft ein Subjekt mit eigenem
Bewusstsein und persönlicher Intelligenz. Unter allen Lebewesen hat er das ausgeprägteste
Ich-Bewusstsein.
Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist, den Menschen in seinen biologischen und psychologischen
Grenzen zu erfassen und so in medizinisch präventiver Weise vor Gefährdung und
technischer Überbelastung zu schützen. Die theoretische Informatik als dem Menschen nahe
Wissenschaft soll humanorientierte Grundsätze erhalten.
Es wird kein Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit erhoben, sehr wohl aber auf wissenschaftliches
Niveau.
Informatics in technical reality is coming nearer and nearer to the “biological” human being.
It seems to be necessary to protect humans against excessive demands by hardware of
Cyber world and especially against computers as machines and their software.
The human being as evolutional species on one side is measured in a very long development
time of thousands of years, the IT on the other side works with human creativity and in
much faster time intervals of some years or - maximal - decenniums only. These times show
a big difference in both areas. The execution-times of the biological human being and his
general surroundings on one hand and the IT with her applications – in electronic speeds -
on the other hand are an outstanding conflict of time. Humans don’t act like computers!
The structure of this work is given by the biological organism, but also the thinking and
feeling of a human being. He has senses, instruments for movement and mental abilities as a
whole. The human being in nature science is a biological object and in the human society an
individual subject with own self awareness und personal intelligence. Compared with all living
subjects he has the highest developed consciousness of his own person. The modern science
seems to make them unimportant.
The goal of this work is, to find the biological a n d psychological borders of the human
being and protect him in a preventive medical kind against coming dangers like for inst. bad
stress and following sickness. Theoretical Informatics has to find out principles, rules and
ways of thinking for human-orientated IT to avoid this danger.
There is no demand on finding out all at once but a beginning on a scientific level is intended.
This work is thought as the first foundation and compendium for all main themes of HO
(Human Orientation).
Besides a speciality out of biology is described new - The Rules of Mendel, a biological
stimulus for informatics.
Orientierung der IT auf den Menschen - das Paradigma (2016)Research Impulses
Am Beginn des Informationszeitalters, des 21. Jahrhunderts, wurde der Einfluss der IT (Information Technology) so wichtig, dass alle Bereiche des menschlichen Lebens und der Gesellschaft mit einbezogen wurden. Speziell die Medien-Industrie startete eine große Hype, die bis heute nicht beendet ist. Mobile Medien wurden wirklich moderne und trendige Objekte speziell für die Jugend.
In allen Ebenen seriöser Wissenschaften wurden die Modeworte Information und Daten verwendet. Viele Bedeutungen wurden benutzt und einige Wissenschaftler (Prof. FLEISSNER, Prof HOFKIRCHNER, Prof. CAPURRO und the Autor) begannen diese Begriffe zu abstrahieren und suchten eine eindeutige wissenschaftliche Festlegung. Folglich wagte es der Autor erstmals, eine weltweit einheitliche Definition der Begriffe Information und Daten vorzuschlagen. Seine Ergebnisse sind unter dem Titel “Informationswissenschaftliche Axiome” zusammengefasst.
Basierend darauf wurde ein Paradigma vorgeschlagen. Im zweiten Teil dessen wurden „Anhaltspunkte bei generellem Auftreten von Information“ erarbeitet. Sie sind eine Menge informationswissenschaftlicher Begriffe, die aus der reellen Natur und Gesellschaft extrahiert wurden. Der Weg von Information zwischen Objekt and Subjekt oder das Miteinbeziehen des Menschen in großen und komplexen Maschinensystemen (Flugzeuge, Schiffe und industrielle Produktionen) machte es notwendig, über die generelle Nutzung von Information generell neu nachzudenken. Als nützliches Ergebnis werden viele neue Beziehungen zu anderen Wissenschaften möglich. Sie sollten aber schon möglichst einheitlich, weltweit und wissenschaftlich strukturiert sein.
Im dritten Kapitel werden generelle Formen aktueller Informationsflüsse erforscht. Die Ergebnisse bringen elegante Einstiegspunkte für nicht eingearbeitete Wissenschaftler aus anderen Zweigen.
Letztlich fragt der Autor: „Wie kann man Information – in allen Formen – positiv und menschlich wertvoll gestalten? “. Diese Frage bleibt – als eine der wenigen - momentan noch offen, ist aber bedeutend für die Zukunft der IT und der menschlichen Gesellschaft.
Orientation of IT towards Human Being - the Paradigm (2016)Research Impulses
At the beginning of our Age of Information, the 21th century, the influence of IT (Information Technology) got so important that all parts of human live and society where involved. Especially Media Industry started a great hype which is not finished till now. Mobile Media have got a really up to date part of especially young society.
On the level of serious science it has been up to date to use the word Information in all reports and publishing papers. A lot of semantics have been used and some scientists (Prof. FLEISSNER, Prof HOFKIRCHNER, Prof. CAPURRO and the author) tried to abstract this word to a constant scientific term. So for first time the author tried a worldwide unifying definition of the terms Information and Data. It’s importance is documented by the topic “Information Scientific Axioms”.
In second part – based on it – Clues for generally evidence of Information are written down. They are a set of informationscientific terms - excerpted out of real nature and society. The way of Information between Object and Subject or involving Human Being in big and complex machine systems (aeroplanes, ships and industrial productions) made it necessary to think additionally about the general usage of Information. As a useful result many relationships to other sciences are possible. They bring the benefit to be unifying and scientifically worldwide structuring.
As next research object general forms of actual Information are investigated.
As final result for future the author asks: „How can we make Information – in all forms – more positive and precious for Human Being? “. This is a new, scientific topic for the future of IT and human society.
In HO (Human Orientation) of IT it's possible to give criterias for the human quality of Information. The goal is a human like and efficient transformation of Data to Information and vice versa.
What is greenhouse gasses and how many gasses are there to affect the Earth.moosaasad1975
What are greenhouse gasses how they affect the earth and its environment what is the future of the environment and earth how the weather and the climate effects.
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BREEDING METHODS FOR DISEASE RESISTANCE.pptxRASHMI M G
Plant breeding for disease resistance is a strategy to reduce crop losses caused by disease. Plants have an innate immune system that allows them to recognize pathogens and provide resistance. However, breeding for long-lasting resistance often involves combining multiple resistance genes
Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
Nucleophilic Addition of carbonyl compounds.pptxSSR02
Nucleophilic addition is the most important reaction of carbonyls. Not just aldehydes and ketones, but also carboxylic acid derivatives in general.
Carbonyls undergo addition reactions with a large range of nucleophiles.
Comparing the relative basicity of the nucleophile and the product is extremely helpful in determining how reversible the addition reaction is. Reactions with Grignards and hydrides are irreversible. Reactions with weak bases like halides and carboxylates generally don’t happen.
Electronic effects (inductive effects, electron donation) have a large impact on reactivity.
Large groups adjacent to the carbonyl will slow the rate of reaction.
Neutral nucleophiles can also add to carbonyls, although their additions are generally slower and more reversible. Acid catalysis is sometimes employed to increase the rate of addition.
Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.
The use of Nauplii and metanauplii artemia in aquaculture (brine shrimp).pptxMAGOTI ERNEST
Although Artemia has been known to man for centuries, its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms apparently began only in the 1930s, when several investigators found that it made an excellent food for newly hatched fish larvae (Litvinenko et al., 2023). As aquaculture developed in the 1960s and ‘70s, the use of Artemia also became more widespread, due both to its convenience and to its nutritional value for larval organisms (Arenas-Pardo et al., 2024). The fact that Artemia dormant cysts can be stored for long periods in cans, and then used as an off-the-shelf food requiring only 24 h of incubation makes them the most convenient, least labor-intensive, live food available for aquaculture (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021). The nutritional value of Artemia, especially for marine organisms, is not constant, but varies both geographically and temporally. During the last decade, however, both the causes of Artemia nutritional variability and methods to improve poorquality Artemia have been identified (Loufi et al., 2024).
Brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are used in marine aquaculture worldwide. Annually, more than 2,000 metric tons of dry cysts are used for cultivation of fish, crustacean, and shellfish larva. Brine shrimp are important to aquaculture because newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) provide a food source for many fish fry (Mozanzadeh et al., 2021). Culture and harvesting of brine shrimp eggs represents another aspect of the aquaculture industry. Nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, play a crucial role in aquaculture due to their nutritional value and suitability as live feed for many aquatic species, particularly in larval stages (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021).
This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intellige...University of Maribor
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Aleš Zamuda: Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intelligent Systems.
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Inter-Society Networking Panel GRSS/MTT-S/CIS Panel Session: Promoting Connection and Cooperation
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Professional air quality monitoring systems provide immediate, on-site data for analysis, compliance, and decision-making.
Monitor common gases, weather parameters, particulates.
1. Why are we rich or poor?
An Information scientific Point of View in our Digital Age.
Franz Plochberger
Information Scientist
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