Resistance is futile: the borg, the hive, and corporate hegemony

Resistance is Futile: Cyborgs, Humanism and the Borg

Of all the villains populating the Star Trek universe, none is perhaps more terrifying and threatening than the Borg. First introduced in “Q Who,” the sixteenth episode of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, this collective of cybernetic organisms quickly became “the signature villains for The Next Generation and Voyager eras of Star Trek” (Wikipedia). Unlike any previous or su...

Resistance is Futile

The Lemonade Game is a three-player game in which players have to pick locations on a circular board, which are as far away as possible from those chosen independently by other players. Players may observe other player’s moves and infer their strategies. The game was studied using a competition of cognitively motivated agents, which inherit properties of adaptivity and stochasticity from human ...

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New Antibiotics—Resistance Is Futile

PLoS Biology | http://biology.plosjournals.org By next summer, more than 40% of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains in the United States will resist both penicillin and erythromycin, according to a recent prediction from the Harvard School of Public Health. The forecast, based on mathematical modeling, was published in the spring of 2003. It’s too early to tell whether that prediction is precisely...

Data is power: resistance is futile.

Le mouvement d'ACQ (amélioration continue de la qualité), avec l'aide d'Intel et de Microsoft, fera de la prochaine décennie l'ère des données. Les départements d'urgence à travers le pays travaillent présentement à mettre sur pied des systèmes de collecte de données pour sur-veiller les profils de gravité des cas des patients, les temps d'attente, les durées de séjours à l'urgence, les habitud...