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Will Artificial Intelligence Bring about an Intellectual Revolution as Profound as the Enlightenment?

Posted by Bob Logan
Robert K. Logan logan@physics.utoronto.ca The question that I have used as the title of this probe was formulated by David A. Bell, a professor of history at Princeton in an article published in the New York Times August 3, 2025. The conclusion he formulates at the end of his article is: ā€œA.I. can bring us
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EVERYTHING YOU KNOW AND EVERYTHING YOU ARE IS Ā BECOMING ITS OPPOSITE

Posted by Steve Hicks
A Review of Andrey Mir’s The Digital Reversal (Popular Media Ecology, 2025; available from Amazon) William Kuhns At first blush it sounds like a 21st century fairy tale: how at enough clicks of the ā€œI likeā€ thumb-upsicon, everything in sight is transformed into its precise opposite. It’s no fairy tale. It is the premise –
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Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  REVISITING B.W. POWE’S OUTAGE ON ITS 30TH. ANNIVERSARY

Posted by J.S. Porter
                                        By J.S. Porter  www.spiritbookword.net            (for R.W. Megens, poet, teacher and media savant) ā€œSo much of my life has been spent trying to figure out what others were saying, implying, whispering.ā€ B.W.
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Oral/Aural and Linguistic/Literary tensions in Paginated Presentations?: A Review of Adeena Karasick’s ‘Massaging the Medium: Seven Pechakuchas’

Posted by Steve Hicks
Introduction Readers of the New Explorations Weblog may be, via the glowing review posted by Robert K. Logan (which has been subsequently re-posted across a variety of social media), already familiar with the latest publication by the provocative NYC-based poet, professor, and public intellectual, Adeena Karasick: Massaging the Medium: Seven Pechakuchas, published by the Institute
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