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George Gilder is the living author who was most quoted in President Reagan’s speeches. His books Wealth and Poverty (1981), Microcosm (1989), and Telecosm (2000) had a big impact on the way people looked at economics and technology. Now he’s back with a new analysis of capitalism that just might do the same thing. In Knowledge and Power, Gilder breaks away from the supply-side model of economics to present a new economic paradigm: the epic conflict between the knowledge of entrepreneurs on one side... Читать дальше...

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The Libertarian Case for a Basic Income

Print section UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  The rise of BlackRock Fly Title:  Genetically modified crops Main image:  20131207_LDP004_1.jpg IN AUGUST environmentalists... Читать дальше...

Print section UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  The rise of BlackRock Fly Title:  GM maize, health and the Séralini affair GENETICALLY modified maize causes cancer: that was the gist of one of the most controversial studies in recent memory... Читать дальше...

Has everyone finished panicking about Ben Affleck being cast as the Dark Knight in Batman vs. Superman? Because the Angry Nerd thinks you should chill—Affleck could totally pull this off. (Just think of Daredevil as a…starter superhero movie.)

Has everyone finished panicking about Ben Affleck being cast as the Dark Knight in Batman vs. Superman? Because the Angry Nerd thinks you should chill—Affleck could totally pull this off. (Just think of Daredevil as a…starter superhero movie.)

Has everyone finished panicking about Ben Affleck being cast as the Dark Knight in Batman vs. Superman? Because the Angry Nerd thinks you should chill—Affleck could totally pull this off. (Just think of Daredevil as a…starter superhero movie.)

[...] it's slowly transformed a search engine that once relied on counting links into one of the world's most sophisticated artificial intelligence tools, perpetually improving the accuracy of results by coming to "understand" how words and concepts relate to each other. [...] - in a pattern Google followed in eventually building its own phones, tablets and PCs - the company is moving into the hardware side. Rather than focusing on the consumer market, the company is initially exploring the use... Читать дальше...