In Brief:
As Parag and Ayesha wrote yesterday, if today you cannot program computers, it is as though you have the skill to read, but not to write. I had no idea so many people were self-publishing!. As Steven Pinker said late last week in his New York Times Op-Ed, "Knowledge is increasing exponentially; human brainpower and waking hours are not. " And this, he says, accounts for the rise of new media and will account for its beneficial permanence in our lives. Spiritual seekers and mystics are the most ready to perform" transvaluations of values," to use Nietzsche's phrase.
