Is There a Right or a Wrong?

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I think the question is valid one and it's a valid which I say 19th century question. Groups of people find it very difficult to admit that they're in the wrong when there's only wrong and right. And what you do if you're with the wrong side as opposed to the right side becomes decided at any particular moment, placing you on one side of the other of the argument. If God if I had the nerve, I think we had that of something like the nano fabricator. These issues will be swept away,. It will not matter whether we will not belong to groups, let me put it that way. The number of choices we are going to have really dumps all the

Legendary science historian James Burke returns to explain his newest project, a Connections app that will allow anyone to "think connectively" about the webs of knowledge available on Wikipedia.

Burke predicted back in 1978 that we’d one day need better tools than just search alone if we were to avoid the pitfalls of siloed information and confirmation bias, and this month he launched a Kickstarter campaign to help create just such a tool - an app that searches connectivity and produces something Google and social media often don’t - surprises, anomalies, unexpected results, and connections, in the same style as his documentary series, books, and other projects.

In the interview, Burke shares his latest insights on change, technology, the future, social media, models of reality, and more.

To support the Kickstarter campaign for the Connections app, here are some links:

• http://jbconnectionsapp.com
• http://knowledgediscoveries.com
• http://kck.st/2eIg21R

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