Clive Thompson Explains Why We Can Count on Geeks to Rescue the Earth
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Bill Gates is now saving the world, aggressively tackling third world diseases. He's a geek -- good at thinking concretely about giant numbers. We look at the huge numbers of mass disasters, plagues or killing fields and go numb. Gates looks at them and runs the moral algorithm: Preventable death = bad; preventable death X 1 million people = 1 million times as bad. More of such geeks might help us respond to today's mass tragedies.
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A team of astronomers steps up a project which one day could preserve the Earth from annihilation.
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It's hard being the newbie on the block, even if you're only talking about a popular video game series. Commentary by Clive Thompson.
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Crofton Rhodes gets called a ''geek&quot; a dozen times a day, but he doesn't mind.
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There is new hope that Earth, if not the life on it, might survive an apocalypse five billion years from now.
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'Advertising is democracy' "Fire the publicist. Go off message. Let all your employees blab and blog!" fantasised the writer Clive Thompson in a recent Wired magazine cover story.â¦
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BBC Radio 4's Click On programme explores how virtual worlds are helping people overcome real-world fears.
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Millions of pounds are on offer for   the person who comes up with the best way of removing large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Regular columnist Bill Thompson says more can be done to encourage young filmmakers from all walks of life.
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Why is there no such a thing as "B game" -- a game so bad it's good? Columnist Clive Thompson plays some of the worst recent videogames, and wonders why they don't produce the same enjoyment as B movies.
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Each year, Pop!Tech brings dozens of world-class thinkers and doers, along with hundreds of listeners, to a three-day retreat in rural Maine. Their goal: Save the world.
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All-terrain armoured transport Review Every office has a luddite, even an organisation so devoted to the new and the technological as Register Hardware. There's always at least one person who clings to his or her fear and loathing of some aspect of the modern world.â¦
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Open-source geeks are devout in their belief that software should be free to all, and hold as their icon the Linux alternative to the Microsoft commercial empire.
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UK physicists finish a crucial element of a device that will probe the forces that shape our Universe.
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Clive Thompson dissects the experiential phenomenon of the beloved (and often misunderstood) hypersocial app.
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Who expected Bill Gates to make us proud to be in high-tech? The geek-turned-philanthropist has surprised us all.
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Scott McNealy for years has relied on Top 10 lists for comic relief during his tech show keynote speeches, but at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Wednesday, he tried a new stunt. [Missing Links]