Footnotes
1.
The
enclosure movement transformed the English medieval system of land held in
common, to obtain greater agricultural productivity. People were forced
off the land and migrated to the cities where they lived in the Dickensian
conditions of industrializing England. One of the major goals of modern society is to ameliorate the harshness of the capitalist system.
2.
Moore’s
Law is the observation that the processing power of computers doubles every two
years due to the increased density of transistors. The May, 2015 Scientific
American writes that exponential increases in circuit density ended around ten
years ago; computer processing power has since increased by work-arounds. Companies are now developing new technologies that
promise granular progress.
3.
Paul
Krugman, NYT, 6/19/15.
4.
Bloomberg,
5/5/15, “How 3-D Printing is Saving the Italian Artisan.”
5.
Washington
Post, 6/27/15.
5a. Ideology suffers from the same bias, trying to apply simple formulas to complicated social matters. This is to be distinguished from principles, which set necessary guidelines. As we noted on our website's home page, "(When the) situation is unique and evolving, implementation requires alignment around essential principles, rather than rules."
6.
Motor Trend, 7/15, “Back to the Future”, p.
48.
7.
Bernard
Williams; “Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy”; Harvard University Press,
Cambridge; 1985; p.p. 1-21.
8.
U.S.
movies have an appeal abroad because they address universal themes.
9.
Joy,
Ibid.
10. Nicholas Carr; “The Glass Cage”;
W.W. Norton & Co.; New York, N.Y.; 2014; p. 228.