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...miss anything about the regular phone, I think it's the psychoanalyst's trick it employed: you're lying on a couch facing the wall, imagining nonjudgmental empathy from someone you can't see. In her book Alone Together, which comes out next year, Turkle writes about a study in which she found that people really like to talk to robots. As soon as you ask people to interact with a computer with artificial intelligence, they start unloading secrets. Robots, it seems, are less likely to take over the earth than they are daytime-television hosting jobs. (See the best...
...disappointing that an economist--and a dull one at that--has been named Person of the Year. I thought the controversial firebrand Sarah Palin should have won it, hands down, as her book, Going Rogue, and her constant campaigning against the Democratic Party made her a centerpiece of notoriety and contention all year...
Like Lewis Carroll, who might have imagined he would be remembered for his book on mathematics rather than the one he wrote for Alice, David Levine assumed that his claim to fame would rest on his watercolors. In an earlier age it would have. His paintings were on par with the very best of the previous century, including works by John Constable and Winslow Homer. But when he died on Dec. 29 at age 83, it was as a caricaturist that he was remembered and celebrated...
Petra Bartosiewicz is writing a book on terrorism trials in the U.S., The Best Terrorists We Could Find, to be published by Nation Books next year. You can find her daily coverage of the Siddiqui trial beginning Jan. 19 on Cageprisoners...
Still, Ratzon, 59, ruled his clan like a kingdom - or a police state. According to a book of domestic bylaws that he laid out for his huge household, the women faced fines from $50 to $500 for such infractions as sitting idle when there was housework to be done or talking to repairmen. To an extent, the situation was state-subsidized: some women claimed state benefits as stay-at-home, single parents. Others, however, worked outside, earning money for the family kitty. But not everyone was happy. Days before his arrest, Ratzon reportedly took one of his "wives...