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Sunday, July 13, 2003

I'm a Bright. Just read Daniel Dennett's editorial in the New York Times describing the Bright movement and I went to the website to be counted. From the website:

A Bright is a person who has a naturalistic worldview

A Bright's worldview is free of
supernatural and mystical elements.

The ethics and actions of a Bright
are based on a naturalistic worldview.


6:44:48 PM      

The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. Is a good book by Joel Mokyr, which I found through a reference to it in David Landes magisterial "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations." Both books have lots of concrete examples of the evolution of technology and its economic impact. It is chock full of great quotes:

[The dynamic forces of technology and the conservative forces of ceremony and ritual] oppose each other in dialectical fashion, and what is required for technological creativity is the right blend of accumulated knowledge of past generations and the ability to shed the stifling burden of past institutions. pg 190


6:28:48 PM      

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