Wassup? AI is not a Brain
Britain
BBCeng have added some new items to their website on Friday (Febr 13), including "a Research Department booklet from the 1960s (approx)". There’s a striking sense of pride in these decades of work that has been under attack from British governments led by Blair, Cameron, and even more so their "conservative" successors. I mean, imagine the BBC today publishing stories like
There is also a well-equipped Carpenters’ Shop which can produce articles in conjunction with the Workshops. A staff of electricians enable the laboratories to be wired to the special needs of any particular Group.
Hint: the transmitter sites were probably not the only publicly-owned assets that have been privatized since the days of Margaret Thatcher.
USA / India
Every generation blames the next, but the study that suggests that "Gen Z [is] less intelligent than millennials" isn’t about blaming people, but about decisions that will be made one way or another. Apparently proven though: listening to shortwave broadcasts hasn’t made us (the boomers) dumber (yet), even though radio, during its first century, has had its critics, too:
Culturally the experience of quality signals a return from the newspaper and radio to the book,
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in 1942.
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