Comments on: In It For The Money: E Pluribus Progress

By: AP60

AP60 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 01:39:09 +0000

Tailoring the education process for all, to facilitate future Mr. Ford or Mr. Gates sounds attractive, but to me it has the same appeal as the poorest of the poor voting with the 1%, hoping that when THEY hit the jackpot, the excessive taxes will not take away the money.

In my mind raising the basic knowledge of the average is far more important, so the US universities can do the research without any help from Asia (where learning while playing seems to be still a fresh idea), or the best Ann Arbor restaurants can hire waiters capable of figuring out who ordered what at the six-person table.

By: liberalNIMBY

liberalNIMBY — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:01:13 +0000

(Tums actually, one m.)

By: Robert LaJeunesse

Robert LaJeunesse — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:38:27 +0000

Good article, but a point of clarification: Spread spectrum is used in CDMA cellphones, but not in the GSM cellphones more common worldwide. The latter rely on precise time division for frequency sharing. It might be of note that spread spectrum is how the GPS service works, with GPS being the method used for synchronizing cell sites such that they can work as a system.

By: Steve Bean

Steve Bean — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:30:03 +0000

No wonder Newton got in the history books.

By: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:46:51 +0000

(Leibniz actually, no t.)

By: Steve Bean

Steve Bean — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:01:32 +0000

Well crafted. Leibnitz would be impressed. (Just thrown in to correct the spelling.) [Editor's note: Thanks. Spelling corrected above from Liebnitz, which should have been caught.] Relevant to your penultimate paragraph, as Byron Katie says: Question Your Thinking, Change the World. [link] If we were "economic beasts" we'd be born with a change purse on our hip. We are social beasts. Money is just The Big Solution that we have yet to see as The Big Problem.