Archivo «Miércoles, 01/sep/2010»
By Reza Aslan, an Iranian-American writer, a member of the faculty at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in a Globalized World and Bernard Avishai, adjunct professor of business at Hebrew University and the author, most recently, of The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace At Last (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/09/10):
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington, purportedly to be part of the Obama administration’s relaunch of peace negotiations. But the urgent talk is of war, thanks to Jeffrey Goldberg’s … Seguir leyendo
By Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/09/10):
It’s been 10 long years since the Palestinians and Israelis last came close to establishing a permanent peace, in January 2001 at Taba in Egypt. During my career in the Egyptian Air Force, I saw the tragic toll of war between the Arabs and Israel. As president of Egypt, I have endured many ups and downs in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Egypt’s decision to be the first Arab state to make peace with Israel claimed the life of my predecessor, Anwar el-Sadat. Ever since the day in … Seguir leyendo
By William Gibson, the author of the forthcoming novel Zero History (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/09/10):
“I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.” Do we really desire Google to tell us what we should be doing next? I believe that we do, though with some rather complicated qualifiers.
Science fiction never imagined Google, but it certainly imagined computers that would advise us what to do. HAL 9000, in … Seguir leyendo