There is a demonstrable difference between intelligence and wisdom. After watching the new Cosmos, with host Neil DeGrasse Tyson, we here at HSCT are amazed at how much human beings have accomplished. It’s a miracle that we go from arguing with our parents and spilling our lunch down our shirts Read more…
6th Annual Conference on Applied Ethics: Technology and Ethics April 4-5 2014 at SUNY Broome Community College Register Now! What are the ethics of data mining, genetic screening and hydrofracking? What is the significance and future of neuroethics? Can there be ethical guidelines for the production and use of chimeras? Read more…
Given revelations of internet data surveillance what concerns should be raised about the possibility of brain monitoring devices? All this week on the HSCT Communication Blog, we are answering questions put forth by the folks running the at the upcoming Suny-Broome 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference being held on April 4thand Read more…
When the astronaut Dave powers down the rebellious HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and more recently in the 2013 film, Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix, we determine through pop culture, what machine “death” looks–and feels–like. The fact of murder comes from the fact of life and ideas and Read more…
Get some outside your own head help. When you are writing anything, it is easy to get cloistered and wrapped up in your own head. And while you may have had this idea for an e-book for years and have been noodling away at it on napkins at restaurants for Read more…
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So, we’ve decided that we’re going to write an e-book, because we’re going to use it to leverage interest in other products and services we are offering. We’ve decided that our topic is relevant and our customers have told us that they need it and will eat it up. Well, Read more…
As there is a process for making a movie, painting a picture or even developing a video game, there is a process for creating a book. The format doesn’t matter these days: hardcover, paperback, e-book or other digital form, the book, the long form narrative, is still alive and well Read more…
You will be made to choose. Imagine for a moment, if you will, the future that is likely rather than the future that is safe: A future where there is no more “traditional entry level work” because it’s all been automated, and instead everyone has their own start-up, peddling ideas, Read more…
There’s a rule we just heard about here at HSCT. It kind of goes like this: Out of all the content ever created by human beings (art, music, plays, TV and radio shows, stand-up comedy, etc., etc., etc.) 33% has always been crap, 33% has always been middlebrow and 33% Read more…