No Armed Bandit

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz4REoaxI79Av3oI-HS87nHTbq2rDnnIyaOFBrSFwAUcLMf8IFCip_5uRriEkIsff7pQ62UQMhLFmv-3qTvFWG0hCf607jvyVHeAWasodNeGDQhhGOVpiDHO5mXLyZA_pwyE1-YldAvI4/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz4REoaxI79Av3oI-HS87nHTbq2rDnnIyaOFBrSFwAUcLMf8IFCip_5uRriEkIsff7pQ62UQMhLFmv-3qTvFWG0hCf607jvyVHeAWasodNeGDQhhGOVpiDHO5mXLyZA_pwyE1-YldAvI4/s640/1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: <a href="http://www.natashadowschull.org/" target="_blank">Natasha Dow Schüll</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://99percentinvisible.org/" target="blank">99% Invisible</a></b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span><b>mericans spend more money on slot machines than movies, baseball, and theme parks combined.</b><br /><br />Americans have always had an uneasy relationship with gambling. To circumvent anti-gambling laws in the US, early slot machines masqueraded as vending machines. They gave out chewing gum as prizes, and those prizes could be redeemed for cash. <br /><br /><object data="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf" height="24" id="audioplayer545" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer545&soundFile=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/90074493/download?client_id=0f8fdbbaa21a9bd18210986a7dc2d72c"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="menu" value="false"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></object> <br /><div><a href="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/90074493/download?client_id=0f8fdbbaa21a9bd18210986a7dc2d72c" target="blank">download mp3</a></div></div>

No Armed Bandit

Photo: Natasha Dow Schüll99% InvisibleAmericans spend more money on slot machines than movies, baseball, and theme parks combined.Americans have always had an uneasy relationship with gambling. To circumvent anti-gambling laws in the US, early slot machines masqueraded as vending machines. They gave…

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Google & The World Brain

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1vxIveocxjM?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.worldbrainthefilm.com/#prettyPhoto" target="blank">worldbrainthefilm</a></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span><b>n 2002 Google began to scan millions of books in an effort to create a giant global library, containing every book in existence. They had an even greater purpose—to create a higher form of intelligence, something that HG Wells had predicted in his 1937 essay ‘world brain’, a giant global library that contained all human knowledge which would lead to a new form of higher intelligence.</b></div>

Google & The World Brain

worldbrainthefilmIn 2002 Google began to scan millions of books in an effort to create a giant global library, containing every book in existence. They had an even greater purpose—to create a higher form of intelligence, something that HG Wells had predicted in his 1937 essay ‘world brain’, a giant …

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