Tuesday, 18 December, 2018

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds.

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds

Posted on Sunday, 8 January, 2017Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds.

This fascinating article explores the borders of manipulation of our decision-making processes. With an increasing dependence on the use of technology and applications tailored by questionable algorithms, it becomes increasingly impossible to determine whether we really have a choice or are we being forced to accept outcomes as prognosticated by information technology through our ordinary search on the internet or whatever app we are depending on. The assumption is that it appears that we have a choice, whatever Google or Bing or any search engine surfaces, but those results had a pre-determined gauge. So, are we coerced into making a selection from a very constrained range of preferences than we would like? Problem is, we no longer think that way – Google and the apps do our thinking for us. What a choice!

Read Article Here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tristan-harris/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds_b_10155754.html

Vela Supernova Remnant.
Credit & Copyright: Marco Lorenzi (Star Echoes). At the northwestern edge of the constellation Vela (the Sails), the four frame mosaic is over 10 degrees wide, centred on the glowing filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. Light from the supernova explosion that created the Vela remnant reached Earth about 11,000 years ago. In addition to the shocked filaments of glowing gas, the cosmic catastrophe also left behind an incredibly dense, rotating stellar core, the Vela Pulsar. Some 800 light-years distant, the Vela remnant is likely embedded in a larger and older supernova remnant, the Gum Nebula.

December 18: The Moon passes 5° south of Uranus (image above), 4h UT (11 PM EST).

December 20: Jupiter passes 5° north of Antares, 2h UT (9 PM EST).

December 21: Mercury passes 6° north of Antares, 8h UT (3 AM EST).

December 21: Mercury passes 0.9° north of Jupiter, 15h UT (10 AM EST).

December 21: Summer Solstice occurs at 22h23m UT (5:23 PM EST).

December 22: Full Moon occurs at 17h49m UT (12:49 AM EST).

December 24: The Moon is at perigee (361,061 km from Earth), 9h49m UT (4:49 AM EST).

Credit: Astronomy.

Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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