Number station broadcast 10/12

  • Manufacturing: The third industrial revolution : “The first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with the mechanisation of the textile industry. Tasks previously done laboriously by hand in hundreds of weavers’ cottages were brought together in a single cotton mill, and the factory was born. The second industrial revolution came in the early 20th century, when Henry Ford mastered the moving assembly line and ushered in the age of mass production. The first two industrial revolutions made people richer and more urban. Now a third revolution is under way. Manufacturing is going digital.”
  • How To Be A De-Motivational Leader : “With all this talk of trying to motivate the people around you, I’m concerned that all we’ll do is create a bunch of overachievers. Overachieving is over-rated. In order to be fair and balanced, I think we need a good lesson in how to demotivate people. It’ll do their over-sized egos some good. Toughen up the masses. Besides, recent studies show that we’re spending WAY too much time trying to boost everyone’s self-esteem. So let’s step back a bit from the compliment and think more in line with containment.”
  • A Girl In Publishing: “Costs Nothing To Produce.” Harumph : “So, of course, because I’m me, I take everything so very personally, I went around tweeting that Chabon essentially thinks my role, that of ebook person, is essentially worthless, that the value he sees in a publisher’s role is all dictated by the physical side of things, the “real” work — the editorial, the print production, the very paper machine that drums up his words for the masses, the boxes that get opened by long-suffering bookstore owners.”
  • University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets : “The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.4 million. The school is eliminating all funding for teaching assistants in computer science, cutting the graduate and research programs entirely, and moving the tattered remnants into other departments.”
  • Harvard Releases Big Data for Books : “Harvard is making public the information on more than 12 million books, videos, audio recordings, images, manuscripts, maps, and more things inside its 73 libraries.”