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Womack, who holds the Bliss chair in Latin American history and economics, wrote in an e-mail Friday that “what’s happening in Sudan—as in some other parts of the world—is by all accounts awful.” But he said that “it’s not genocide, and it doesn’t threaten continental, or much less intercontinental, warfare...
...other hand, there’s something delicious about getting your hands on a fact. Robert Nozick had a famous conundrum where he asked people, “If you could go inside a happiness machine and you’d experience a life of utter bliss, but you’d really be laying inside a machine with your brain all wired up, would you want to go into the machine?” I don’t know anybody who’s ever done that study, but I would suggest that there would be plenty...
That kind of stuff makes you realize that life in the wireless city of the future isn't necessarily unmitigated bliss. Information is a two-edged sword: it can empower you, but it can also mess with your privacy. And there's such a thing as too much info. Stick a wi-fi-enabled camera on a streetlamp, stick a solar panel on the camera for power, and suddenly you have got cheap, instant 24-hr. streaming-video surveillance. "How many cities wouldn't want that?" Stalter asks rhetorically. "So Blade Runner is happening." (I think he means...
Jail is one thing. A country-wide naming meltdown is another. And that’s exactly what will happen in a few years, when all of Dartboard’s hyphenated contemporaries decide to settle down to enjoy marital bliss. In just ten years, kindergartens may be overrun with little Joey Hertzl-Bunzl-Hepler-Smiths and Mary Eagle-Lee-Bobbitt-Okionobes. There will be no more naptime, because roll call will take the entire...
That wasn’t the case for her roommates right before Heller’s plunge into marital bliss this August. Sarah M. Fine, one of Veronica’s roommates, wrote to Heller by e-mail about the upcoming marriage over the summer...