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…ufacturing could be much more dispersed as electrical-distribution grids were built. Wiener then argues that a further new technology, that of the nascent computational machines of his time, will provide yet another revolution. The machines he talks about seem to be both analog...

…ional Lawyers Guild was established in 1937 as an antidote to the American Bar Association, which was then fighting the New Deal, excluding black lawyers from membership, and opposing the labor movement. The original guild was an amalgam of Roosevelt liberals, CIO labor leaders,...

…o contain it, and limit the human cost on both sides. Yet when Dan and I began visiting units on the front line of this new conflict, we realized that if it kept escalating, we’d have to find new tools and strategies to bring it under control. We were in charge of an army trained...

…ine the region. Last week's attack on the Eilat road should be understood in this context. Some are hypothesizing that new Islamist groups forming in the Sinai or Palestinian groups in Gaza operating outside Hamas' control carried out the attack. But while such organizations mig...

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…eaucracy and intelligence community revolted against Richard Nixon, outlined the kinds of mischief, and worse, that the new administration could face. “Deep state,” the left-wing and right-wing notion of an _ intelligence-network permanent-government conspiracy, part of the Brei...

…usiness magazines I'd saved, I wore the same five shirts and four pairs of pants 90% of the time, it was about time for new furniture, and I never used the outdoor grill or lawn furniture. Even getting rid of things I never used proved to be like a capitalist short-circuit. It w...

possibility that machines threaten a new fascism must be weighed against the vigor of the liberal ideas, institutions, and norms that Wiener championed throughout the book. The flaw in today’s dystopian prophecies is that they disregard the existence of these norms and institutio...

…al superiors (and perhaps our superiors in other areas like ethics and creativity as well). Of course there is nothing new in this notion; the idea of advanced AGI systems that increase their intelligence by modifying their own source code goes back to the early days of AI. And...

…s capacity generated in 2010 and percent of total generation; its capacity factor; and its long-term levelized cost for new construction, estimated by the Energy Information Agency. Capacity factors are important since they measure the intermittency of each source (capacity facto...

… —Vladimir Putin using tactics of nonviolent civil disobedience. Successful nonviolent democratic revolutions are not new. Perhaps the first color revolution took place in 1974, when a dictatorship in Portugal was overthrown by military officers who drew on the support of civil...

…enemy - seemed to animate, constantly, the progress of these two fights. Once, before I gave a speech to an audience of newly promoted one-star generals in 2010, a four-star general pulled me aside fora moment. He explained that I’d be speaking to a crowd of officers who had come...

…say no. We ended up arranging a direct source of fuel supply to Jenin, on the northern edge of the West Bank, and built new terminals to handle it. We facilitated construction permits for a new industrial zone. For a conference of international economists and business people, we...

Alphabet (Buy, $1,025 PO) Stock view: Expect solid 1Q revs., but loss of non-GAAP reconciliation a concern New concerns have been raised on the YouTube advertiser pullback, but with the cuts in spending surfacing primarily in the back half of March, we anticipate only modest imp...

…lls “a card-carrying member of the Harvard establishment.” It is a dis- tinction that did not come easily, even 36 THE NEW YORKER, DECEMBER 12, 2011 though he has received millions of dol- lars in funding for his projects from the National Institutes of Health. “The goal is to...