Cybersecurity Cowrites Our Future
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AP: US Launches ‘virtual’ Embassy For Iran
From the article: “More than three decades after the bricks-and-mortar U.S. embassy in Tehran was shuttered and diplomatic relations with Iran were severed following the Islamic revolution and hostage crisis, the Obama administration has opened a virtual embassy for Iran to encourage dialogue with the Iranian people.”
PewResearch: Old Prosper Relative to Young With 47:1 Age-Based Wealth Gap
According to the report: “As a result of these divergent trends, in 2009 the typical household headed by the older adult had $170,494 in net worth, compared with just $3,662 for the typical household headed by the younger adult. People generally accumulate wealth as they age, so it is not unusual to find large age-based gaps on this measure. However, the current gap is unprecedented. In 1984, the age-based wealth gap had been 10:1. By 2009, it had ballooned to 47:1.”
From Turkle to Sesame: What’s a Computer?
From Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self,” p21:
… the computer is a metaphysical machine. Children too are provoked. The computer creates new occasions for thinking through the fundamental questions to which childhood must give a response, among them the question “what is life?”
From Sesame Street (h/t jgieseking, Aga Skorupka):
