كان جورج اوريل لا ينفك يكرر في رائعته 1984 الاخ الكبير يراقبك لـكن من المؤكد ان شكل الاخ الكبير اليوم لم يخطر ببـاله ابـداً لـم يـعد يحتاج لجيوش العملاء والمخبريين الجرارة نحن نبعث لهم. بتقارير محدثة دقيقة فدقيةيعمل الرقميون على تفكيك تشابكنا تعقيداتنا وتحويلنا الى رموز ونماذج تدور في خورزمياتهم ...
The book The Numerati is basically a book about how math and numbers can actually influence and affect a person's life in everyday life for examples to workers, shoppers and etc. For workers, the employers can watch over you and use numbers to determine if they are efficient workers and rate them...
Quite interesting, put it suffers from a lack of depth. The author isn't an expert on the subject, but he tried to talk to many people who are. These people either couldn't divulge their trade secrets (like people from the NSA) or were doing things that were too complicated for the author to unde...
The Germ of the Jeopardy Machine THE JEOPARDY MACHINE’S birthplace—if a computer can stake such a claim—was the sprawling headquarters of the global research division named after its flesh-and-blood ancestor, IBM’s founder, Thomas J. Watson. In 1957, when IBM presided over the rest of the infant ...
Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) It was Barlow I went to see first. He had a caravan park down on the Isle of Purbeck somewhere round Wareham. I remembered him faintly, a florid barrel of a man who stayed at the Cape once when I was small. He tied up the arms of my cardigan so I couldn’t get my h...