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Brian Boyd's essay on the interaction of evolution and creativity,
"Purpose-Driven Life"--which appeared in the Spring issue of The
American Scholar-- has been selected by the eminent physicist (and
frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books), Freeman Dyson,
for 2010 inclusion in The Best American Science and Nature Writing.
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"Too late, I think, to regard technologies as something one is for or
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fundamental sense of the basic time/space categories, he said, either by
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We congratulate two more writers whose work in our pages last year will
be republished in year-end "best of" anthologies. Brian Boyd's piece
from the Spring issue, "Purpose-Driven Life
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been selected by physicist Freeman Dyson for inclusion in the 2010
edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. And Joel E.
Cohen's "A Mindful Beauty," from our Autumn issue, will appear in The
Best Spiritual Writing 2011. Cohen wrote about what poetry and applied
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for 2010 inclusion in The Best American Science and Nature Writing.
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lectures, saying he wouldn't be surprised to learn that they are
trolling the Internet while listening. Then last week we learned from
The Washington Post that a professor at Georgetown Law has banished
laptops from his lectures to minimize potential diversions. With that in
mind, we asked Birkerts what aspects of technology he can endorse, or at
least live with.
"Too late, I think, to regard technologies as something one is for or
against (except for purposes of abstract argument)," he replied. "For me
it comes down to degrees of use, or acquiescence, and having an
awareness of what is changed, compromised, or put at risk in exchange
for what benefits." He is most suspicious of technologies that alter our
fundamental sense of the basic time/space categories, he said, either by
making things that need to be known through effort or resistance too
easy or, as with GPS, giving the illusion that we never don't know where
we are. "The opposite is metaphysically truer," he said, because "we
never have a clue.
"Also, technologies that abridge social chasms too readily create
communities without effort or stress--these are to be watched carefully.
Again, it's all a matter of degrees, and if we are not ready to dig in
our heels every so often, we ought to at least have an active awareness
of how we are being changed, and what we are being changed from."
SCHOLARSHIP REPRISED
We congratulate two more writers whose work in our pages last year will
be republished in year-end "best of" anthologies. Brian Boyd's piece
from the Spring issue, "Purpose-Driven Life
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103198958017&s=22421&e=001WgPKY55c5rUj9wz
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been selected by physicist Freeman Dyson for inclusion in the 2010
edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. And Joel E.
Cohen's "A Mindful Beauty," from our Autumn issue, will appear in The
Best Spiritual Writing 2011. Cohen wrote about what poetry and applied
mathematics have in common, and it's more than you might think.
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the long national debate, with its allusions last year to "death
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of Having Lived
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M> ," offers a dose of reality: "When the organs have failed, when the
mind has dissolved, when the body that has faithfully housed us for our
lifetime has abandoned us, what's wrong with giving up?"
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