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• Farming

  By aaforringer on October 15, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.   Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military… Read More ›

• Learning

  By aaforringer on October 10, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.   Sugata Mitra Sugata Mitra (born 12 February 1952) is an Indian computer scientist and educational theorist. He is best known for his “Hole in the Wall” experiment, and widely cited in… Read More ›

• Flight

  By aaforringer on October 8, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.   Simon Newcomb Newcomb stated the above in 1901, but he was not as closed off as the quote makes people think.   “He begins an article titled… Read More ›

• Machines

  By aaforringer on October 3, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.   B. F. Skinner B.F. Skinner (born March 20, 1904, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died August 18, 1990, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American psychologist and an influential exponent of behaviourism, which views human behaviour in terms of responses… Read More ›