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Project 10^100 (via GoogleVideos) “The eerie point is that light behaves as if it were considering all possible paths and automatically taking the best one. Nature — cue the theme from “The Twilight Zone” — somehow knows calculus.” Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world (via TEDtalksDirector) “…we’ve got all these amazing gamers, we’ve got these games that are kind of pilots of what we might do but none of them have saved the real world yet - well, I hope that you will agree with me that gamers are a human resource that we can use to do real world work, that games are a powerful platform for change - we have all of these superpowers; blissful productivity, the ability to weave a tight social fabric, this feeling of urgent optimism, and the desire for epic meaning. I really hope that we can come together to play games that matter, to survive on this planet for another century - and that’s my hope that you will join me in making and playing games like this. When I look forward to the next decade, I know two things for sure; that we can make any future we can imagine, and we can play any games we want. So I say let the world-changing games begin.”
"… Bill says we need an energy miracle, pronto. And he is right. All problems fade to insignificance when you recognize that solving those problems requires energy. A lot of it. Some sources of energy carry a lot of risk. Others have yet to be developed, but developing them will require spending what little we have. I like Bill Gates more now that he has become a benefactor of humanity rather than a titan of industry. He doesn’t seem cranky anymore. And yet, for a brief moment when his slide wasn’t showing, his face darkened and he became quite obviously a man who is accustomed to getting precisely what he wants. I guess that’s why he used to be cranky. At any rate, I hope Bill Gates gets exactly what he wants: an energy miracle."
"To Democrats, I would remind you that we still have the largest majority in decades, and the people expect us to solve some problems, not run for the hills,” Mr. Obama said in his nationally televised speech. “And if the Republican leadership is going to insist that 60 votes in the Senate are required to do any business at all in this town — a supermajority — then the responsibility to govern is now yours as well. Just saying no to everything may be good short-term politics, but it’s not leadership."
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