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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 30, 2015 

Of Digital Billionaires and Analog Beggars—Entering the Age of Disruption

We are entering a new age of robber barons who wish to disrupt our old economic and social ways. Who are these new robber barons? Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame; Michael and Xochi Birch of Bebo fame (which was sold to AOL for $850 million in 2008); Peter Thiel, an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, hedge […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 24, 2014 

Reflections on the Evolution and Deep History of “Mentalization”

Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar has just released a new book entitled Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind. Dunbar wrote his book along with two archaeology colleagues, Clive Gamble and John Gowlett. For simplicity, at times, I’ll refer to Thinking Big as Dunbar’s book. In the rest of this post […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 August 21, 2013 

COMMENT: The Care and Feeding of Vinyl Records (part II of II)

The care associated with caring for real, tangible, touchable objects is significantly different than the care associated with caring for unreal, virtual, untouchable objects. That’s the thesis I tacked up on the proverbial castle door during part I. I used my high school experience of entering the environment of taking care of vinyl records and […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 February 21, 2013 

What’s So Social About Machine Media? (1 of 2)

In the beginning there was “grunt media”—communication centered on a series of modulated grunts, groans, yelps, yells, screeches, coos, etc. Next came oral media—communication centered on a group of people sitting around telling stories. The history of communication media continues thus—media centered on communicating via… …clay tablets and a system of glyphs (typically about food […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 January 10, 2013 

COMMENT: Ohio rape case: Evidence on social media creates new world for justice system – Yahoo! News

Ohio rape case: Evidence on social media creates new world for justice system – Yahoo! News. By Mark Guarino | Christian Science Monitor Just a quick comment on the above article by Mark Guarino. By now most of us have heard about the alleged case of rape in Ohio. “[T]wo high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio, […]

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