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A New Twist on the Evolution of Cooperation
Axelrod’s famous book "The Evolution of Cooperation" has been one of my all-time favorites for a long time. SmartMobs now reports via Wired that a new successful strategy has been found for the iterated prisoners’ dilemma that is different from Tit-for-Tat. This strategy basically steps out of the original system by having prior knowledge of…
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Lance Knobel: Amateur Security is Rather Nice
Lance Knobel writes on security at the British Prime Minister’s office: A few years ago, when I first had to go to Downing Street, the security consisted of a policeman checking your name was on a list. If it was, you were ushered through the gates and walked to Number Ten. No one checked your…
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Site dedicated to Bluejacking
There is now even a website specifically dedicated to Bluejacking.
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Doug Engelbart’s "Neighbor"
Eugene Eric Kim at Blue Oxen Associates wrote A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools, which is quite interesting and thoughtful. In the acknowledgements, I’m listed right next to Doug Engelbart, probably one of the most influential people in this technology industry of ours over the last 30 years.
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In Praise of The Economist (the Weekly Newspaper)
If poetry is the way to create images, even whole lines of thought with very few words, the following quote from The Economist‘s July 3rd edition is pure poetry: Just 15 years after the Velvet Revolution, the Czech Communist Party has found a new way to threaten democracy: by getting dangerously popular. What do you…