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Luxury | Inconspicuous consumption | Economist.com
Now that luxury has gone mass market, how are the super-rich to flaunt their wealth?
society  Economist  luxury 
january 2006 by mdn
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Do avatars dream of electric racoons?
As part of Newsnight's Geek Week, business correspondent Paul Mason and presenter Jeremy Paxman broadcast TV's first ever face-to-face studio session from inside the computer game Second Life.
Article  BBC  Newsnight  Online  society  tv  geekweek 
january 2006 by mdn
Edge: What's your dangerous idea.
The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious.
discussion  thinking  Future  society  Knowledge  magazine  Culture  Philosophy  Science 
january 2006 by mdn

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