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  A comment on Talk: Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web

  Oct 15 2011: I'm with Dezainde....skeptical.
  I've been around a long time (had a commodore Vic 20 in 1980!) The birth of the WWW was magic, even though it was text-only but best of all ... no advertising! Now one seldom surfs without an ad floating across the screen. Even YouTube forces users to watch an ad before viewing a clip. Advertising crept in slowly, but to me, is now a cancer eroding a great truly great thing.

• A comment on Conversation: Isn't it time to eliminate grades in education?

  Aug 9 2011: I'm a retired high school teacher with an "insider' perspective,
  And, yes, you are correct. Maybe it is time to "can" the grading system.
  But consider "meaningful narrative feedback" in the high school class system.
  Most teachers have approximately 120 students a semester. For the narratives to be valid
  the teacher would have to give 15 days (based on an 8 hour day) four times a semester
  for evaluation. This is based on 1 hour per student. By any standard that is a lot of time.
  
  Just trying to give the discussion another perspective. Is the teacher's job to help the students learn or spend 60 days evaluating?

• A reply on Talk: Patricia Burchat: Shedding light on dark matter

  Aug 8 2011: Maybe our universe is finite but the number of universes is infinite

• A comment on Talk: Patricia Burchat: Shedding light on dark matter

  Aug 8 2011: Really dumb questtion:
  
  A -----------B ----------C
  
  If light is bent around B, can we see it visually?

• A reply on Talk: Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world

  Aug 3 2011: "I kind of like this more than the other."
  Here lies the rub. If 64% like the "this" but only 63% like the "that", we will never see the "that".
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  A comment on Talk: Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots

  Feb 22 2011: I must wonder aloud about the sense in spending billions of dollars to create something that mimics a human brain. It's like using vast amounts of time, energy and money creating a new rubber ball. The new one will act just as a currently-available rubber ball but we can consider it to be an "artificial" rubber ball. Using intelligence to create artificial intelligence somehow seems absurd.

• A reply on Talk: Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots

  Feb 22 2011: I must wonder aloud about the sense in spending billions of dollars to create something that mimics a human brain. It's like using vast amounts of time, energy and money creating a new rubber ball. The new one will act just as a currently-available rubber ball but we can consider it to be an "artificial" rubber ball. Using intelligence to create artificial intelligence somehow seems absurd.