17 Jan
Links for 2007 01 17
- Econbrowser: The distribution of world income
Maps are fascinating, this one shows "GDP density", calculated by multiplying GDP per capita by the number of people per square kilometer - MTV Overdrive | THE REAL PRICE OF VIRTUAL GOLD | Is Mining Virtual Gold Exploitative?
WOW, MTV Web works perfectly under GNU/Linux! The report is about chinese working in GoldFarms collecting virtual goods on World of Warcraft. GoldFarm manager claims there are 500.000 chineses doing so. - The Heroic Theory of Scientific Development « Apperceptual
Multiple Discovery is a very thorough study of independent simultaneous discovery in the history of science and technology. It seems that there is almost no instance of a great discovery or invention that was not discovered independently and simultaneousl
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Posted by Marco Fabbri on 17.01.07 at 3:40 pm
I remember being introduced at this “Multiple Discovery” pattern while reading a book about non-euclidean geometry, the pattern was related to the concurrent work of Bolyai and Lobachevsky. When I first read about this there was an introductive quote which I can’t recall precisely, however it was about a similitude between ideas and flowers (violets if get it right): for flowers there are seasons, when time is mature enough they freely bloom at the same time in different and distant places; the same holds for ideas, when times are ready ideas freely blossom at the same time in different and distant places.