“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”
What is the Internet hiding from you?
More than you might think. In this short but sweet presentation at TED, Eli Pariser reveals that the major search engines, content aggregators and portals are filtering what you see on an unprecedented level.
Pariser argues very effectively that we're passing the torch from human editors to computer algorithms that end up providing not what we should see, but what we want to see.
Almost thirty years in the making, the river Beautiful will be published as a premium hardcover, a value softcover, and a very special online multimedia experience.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky came on the show to talk about how he writes fantasy and science fiction. He won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for his book, Children of Time, and has written more than 60 books and novellas. He spends his life thinking about how to make believable worlds and how to build characters that have weight to them.
Adrian Tchaikovsky came on the show to talk about how he writes fantasy and science fiction. He won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for his book, Children of Time, and has written more than 60 books and novellas. He spends his life thinking about how to make believable worlds and how to build characters that have weight to them. My favorite thing is how he writes a fight scene, how he thinks through the pacing and all the action. If you want to write imaginative stories filled with wonder and fantasy, you're going to like this episode.
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