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THE USER ILLUSION: CUTTING CONSCIOUSNESS DOWN TO SIZE
How do we define the value conferred by a bit of information such as a single letter? Are we aware that we constantly discard gargantuan volumes of information without recognizing their worth? In The User Illusion, a didactic tome employing examples from physics to poker, Danish author Tor Norretranders addresses...
It comes as no surprise that The User Illusion is also user-friendly. First published in 1991, the Danish version sold more than 100,000 copies, a number equivalent to 2% of the population of Denmark. Even so, Norretranders' book possesses a motive more noble than self-help and survival...
Levitin's historical comparisons of contemporary Israel to ancient Sparta and Athens was especially remarkable, simply because they ring so true. Like the ancient Athenian democracy, Israel is an armed citizen-state that must remain continually wary of its neighbors. And while we sitting comfortably here in the West might...
This interpretation may be my own illusion, but I would bet that many other students have the same impressions. Though Harvard is a large place, and complete school familiarity is unfeasible, the cold shoulder is not always a result of somebody forgetting someone else's name or one person not...