Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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robots and health care

[...] With the pressure on insurance companies and health care providers to lower costs, I worry that there will be market forces pushing robots into the operating room at times when a patient is better served by a human being. Robots can eventually improve outcomes in health care, but it would be …

—p.33 The Industries of the Future Here Come the Robots (15) by Alec J. Ross
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saving 1 million people every year

[...] As Sebastian Thrun explained in a TED talk, his best friend was killed in a car accident, spurring his personal crusade to innovate the car accident out of existence: "I decided I'd dedicate my life to saving 1 million people every year."

—p.29 Here Come the Robots (15) by Alec J. Ross
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robots and Japanese culture

[...] Not only does Japan have an economic need and the technological know-how for robots, but it also has a cultural predisposition. The ancient Shinto religion, practiced by 80 percent of Japanese, includes a belief of animism, which holds that both objects and human beings have spirits. As a res…

—p.21 Here Come the Robots (15) by Alec J. Ross
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a scarcity of scarcity archive/dissertation

The vectoralist class discovers--irony of ironies!--a scarcity of scarcity. It struggles to find new "business models" for information, but ends up settling for its only reliable means of extracting a surplus from its artificial scarcity, through the formation of monopolies over every branch of its…

—p.312 A Hacker Manifesto Surplus (300) by McKenzie Wark
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information can escape the commodity form archive/dissertation

What may be free from the commodity form altogether is not land, not capital, but information. All other forms of property are exclusive. The ownership by one excludes, by definition, the ownership by another. The class relation may be mitigated, but not overcome. The vectoralist class sees in the …

—p.253 Revolt (233) by McKenzie Wark