Understanding Our Minds and How We Can Liberate Ourselves and Others From the Hex of the Internet

2018 ◽  
pp. 257-274
Author(s):  
Sister Gayatriprana
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Inner Experience ◽  
The West ◽  
Conceptual Thinking ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Human Value ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Universe ◽  
Internal Experience

In facing the frustration and anger generated by the imposition by the digital world of the power of conceptual thinking and unseen algorithms, the West has sought to find the balance of inner experience. From progressive developments in psychology and a study of the great spiritual teachers of the world a model of balance between conceptual thinking and internal experience emerges: There is a need, not only to think clearly and rationally, but also to feel and empathize with all, to know deep from within what is of primary human value and the innate relationship between all beings, from the physical world to the greatest Buddha. The suggestion is that, through a secular type of spirituality integration of all of those qualities, an overall worldview will emerge. Such integration will lead directly to exuberant action that not only benefits individuals, but all whom they meet and from there outwards, outwards, and outwards, to integrate and bless the contents of the entire universe.

The Prehistory of P versus NP

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance Fortnow
Keyword(s):  
Academic Work ◽  
Research Community ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Efficient Computation ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
Large Research

This chapter explores two separate paths that led to the P versus NP question. In the end it was Steve Cook in the West and Leonid Levin in the East who would first ask whether P = NP. Science does not happen in a vacuum, and both sides have a long history leading to the work of Cook and Levin. The chapter covers just a small part of those research agendas, the struggle in the West to understand efficient computation and the struggle in the East to understand the necessity of perebor. Both would lead to P versus NP. Today, with most academic work available over the Internet and with generally open travel around the world, there is now one large research community instead of two separate ones.

Counterterrorism and the Western Response

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-75
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Affective Response ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S ◽  
United Nation

There has been a neglect on the part of Western governments with focus on the U.S. to take seriously the internet campaign that ISIS has been waging since 2014 and the affective response that still draws citizens from across the world into their promise of a civilized, united nation for Muslims. It is possible that the West, even with a severely increased commitment to fighting the Islamic State, may be too late. This chapter will explore responses by Western governments including the United States to fight internet-enabled terrorism.

Traces and Shadows

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-120
Author(s):  
Rob Kitchin
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Continuous Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Store Loyalty ◽  
Smart Systems ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Data Production

This chapter charts the transition from an analogue to a digital world, its effect on data footprints and shadows, and the growth of data brokers and government use of data. The World Wide Web (WWW) started to change things by making information accessible across the Internet through an easy-to-use, intuitive graphical interface. Using the Internet, people started leaving digital traces. In their everyday lives, their digital shadows were also growing through the use of debit, credit, and store loyalty cards, and captured in government databases which were increasingly digital. Running tandem to the creation of digital lifestyles was the datafication of everyday life. This was evident in a paper which examined the various ways in which digital data was being generated and tracked using indexical codes about people, but also objects, transactions, interactions, and territories, and how these data were being used to govern people and manage organizations. Today, people live in a world of continuous data production, since smart systems generate data in real time.

scholarly journals Digitally competent schools: teacher expectations when introducing digital competence in Finnish basic education

Seminar.net ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-215
Author(s):  
Linda Mannila
Keyword(s):  
Basic Education ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Similar Content ◽  
New Curricula ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
School Curricula

The increased exposure to technology raises a need for understanding how the digital world works, just as we learn about the physical world. As a result, countries all over the world are renewing their school curricula in order to include digital competence, computer science or other similar content. In this paper, we provide insight into what teachers see as crucial aspects when implementing a new curricula introducing digital competence as a transversal element. We have analysed 86 Finnish teachers’ descriptions of digitally competent schools and digitally competent personnel, in order to identify a list of prerequisites that can be helpful to school leaders who are to drive the change at their local schools.

Realization of a design-less system for analog integrated circuits

Impact ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-11
Author(s):  
Nobukazu Takai
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Circuit Design ◽  
Analog Circuit ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Analog Circuit Design ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Circuit Designer

The 21st century has given rise to a digital world which has significantly impacted on the ways in which humans go about their everyday lives. From being able to speak with whomever you want, whenever you want, wherever you are on your smartphone, to tapping away on your laptop, through to spending hours each day on the internet, the world we live in is firmly digital and it now shapes the way we experience life. When it comes to circuits, analog still has a hugely important role to play. Circuit designer Associate Professor Nobukazu Takai is leading a team of researchers who are applying machine learning to analog circuit design. They are the first team to do this anywhere in the world and, using their method, computers are able to learn how to improve their own circuit specifications.

Videogames and Sensory Theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 162-183
Author(s):  
Kaila Goode ◽  
Sheri Vasinda
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Instructional Tool ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Sound Effects ◽  
The World ◽  
Visual Text ◽  
Classroom Use

The act of playing video games is a multimodal experience, immersing the gamer in a sensorial experience in the digital world. Video games incorporate sensory literacies such as haptics, graphics, sound effects, music, auditory dialogue, visual text, and character movement. The sensory literacies allow gamers to connect the digital world to the physical world, becoming engrossed in the world and story of the video game. Thus, due to the multimodal and sensorial nature of video games, they have the potential to be a beneficial tool for increasing student engagement within the classroom and assisting students in further increasing literacy skills and content knowledge. In addition, a review of literature of classroom use of video games as an instructional tool found increased engagement, use of video games as texts, cross-literacies that supported traditional literacy processes and skills.

Lifestyle

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald M. Baecker
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Physical World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Electronic Communications ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
The World ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
General Aspects ◽  
Almost All

The widespread digitization of technologies, materials, and processes, and the constant use of the internet for communication and consumption, have led to dramatic changes in our lifestyle. We begin Chapter 12 with the internet and social media’s enabling people to better connect with family, friends, acquaintances, and communities. There can be more mutual awareness and closeness. Yet we may never be able to ‘unplug’; the line between work and play can become increasingly blurred. Having no down time is one manifestation of a broader corrosive phenomenon—technology or social media addiction. We shall see how a battle is being waged between those who want to engage us with more seductive user experiences, and those who would counsel a saner life in which technology and media play a more modest role. We then move from electronic communications to the physical world. We shall consider the effect of ubiquitous digital media, especially the so-called Internet of Things, in which almost all objects become digital. Such objects can sense people near them and general aspects of the world. They behave based on what they sense. One form of this is the rapid integration of voice assistants in everyday objects such as speakers and lamps. People can also transcend the real world by moving into virtual worlds, via augmented reality and virtual reality. The former allows the world to be enhanced with computer-generated visuals and sounds, while the latter allows immersion into worlds that are totally synthetic. We look at how people meet one another nowadays, and the increasingly important role of internet dating. For those who find intimacy or romance with people too challenging or insufficiently satisfying, and as robots become more and more lifelike, there are new opportunities for intimacy and for sexual satisfaction using sex robots, a development in which there are passionate advocates on both sides. How we do financial transactions is also changing. Cash is disappearing; money is becoming increasingly digital and intangible. Investors speculate in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, which are implemented with an ingenious secure networked digital ledger known as blockchain.

The realities of Free/Libre/Open Source Software developers in Japan and Asia

First Monday ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Shimizu ◽  
Jun Iio ◽  
Kazuo Hiyane
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The West ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
The World ◽  
Asian Languages

A variety of individuals around the world are furthering development of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) through the Internet. Why do they participate in developers’ communities and continue to develop FLOSS? Is their treatment enough to sustain their activities? Surveys, using online questionnaires, were conducted to answer these questions to analyze the FLOSS movement sociologically. However these surveys tend to focus on developers in the West. We decided to see if there are regional differences in FLOSS development. To that end, we conducted two surveys, the FLOSS–JP survey in Japanese and the FLOSS–ASIA survey in other Asian languages. In this paper, we describe regional differences, especially among Asian and Japanese FLOSS developers and compare the results to those from Western FLOSS surveys. Detailed reports of FLOSS–JP/ASIA are available at our Web site (MRI, 2004)

scholarly journals Privacy attitudes and behaviors in the age of post-privacy:

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Demertzis ◽  
Katerina Mandenaki ◽  
Charalambos Tsekeris
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
International Research ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The digital world is a field of information and entertainment for users and a field of extraction of the most valuable good of recent years: personal data. How much of a threat to privacy is the collection and processing of data by third parties and what do people think about it? On the occasion of the extensive methods of surveilling citizens and collecting their data, this study attempts to contribute new empirical data evidence from the international research on the use of the Internet by the World Internet Project on attitudes and behaviors of individuals regarding online privacy and surveillance. The aim is to determine whether and to what extent the recorded concerns about the violation of privacy intersects with a growing acceptance of its very absence.

scholarly journals Technologies of digital economy as tools for improving quality of life, business efficiency and public administration

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Maria Vladimirovna Shendo ◽  
Elena Viktorovna Sviridova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Data Transfer ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Computer Engineering ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Internet Of Things Technology

The world gets quickly covered by networks that enable connectivity and data transfer between digital devices. More than 40% of the world's population has access to the Internet. As digital networks spread around the world and the economic benefits of digitalization increase, we are witnessing a digital transformation. The application of digital technologies supports innovations in business and industry, improves the life standards of citizens and efficiency of public administra-tion. Russia has certain prospects in the development of the national digital economy for develop-ing the information infrastructure, finalizing the regulatory framework and providing this process with the appropriate personnel. The role of IT-technologies in the economy of the Russian Federa-tion is indicated, the rating of the digital economies of the world is presented, in which Russia takes 39th place. There have been considered the basic concepts of the digital economy, defined and classified areas of application of its technologies, identified categories of their application with ex-amples of existing projects of the digital economy. A statistical analysis of the prospects of the Russian digital economy has been conducted; the categories of new jobs in the changing labor market are singled out in the framework of digitalization, as well as of the scope of their application. A particular attention is paid to analysis of the Internet of things technology, which has an impact on the surrounding world, including the labor market. Specialties in the IT industry include various disciplines: computer science, computer engineering, and software development. Vacancies in the changing digital world are conditionally classified: “implementers”, “developers”, “improvers”. Conclusions are drawn as a result of the expansion and widespread introduction of digital technol-ogies on the prospects for the development of the economies of each individual state, the estab-lishment of cooperation between countries and solving of many global problems.

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