http://www.dcrblogs.com/2007/12/10/isaac-asimov-prophet/ Motivating readers to believe, act, and achieve by looking at life with wit, wisdom, and engaging creativity Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:22:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.dcrblogs.com/2007/12/10/isaac-asimov-prophet/#comment-9795 Believe. Act. Achieve! - dcr Blogs dot Com » Blog Archive » Google Likes Me Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:52:44 +0000 http://www.dcrblogs.com/2007/12/10/isaac-asimov-prophet/#comment-9795 [...] Apparently, that was enough, in Google’s eyes, to make me an authority for the search phrase “Isaac Asimov prophecies.” [...] [...] Apparently, that was enough, in Google’s eyes, to make me an authority for the search phrase “Isaac Asimov prophecies.” [...]

]]> http://www.dcrblogs.com/2007/12/10/isaac-asimov-prophet/#comment-5489 dcr Blogs » Blog Archive » Links o’ the Week Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:10:18 +0000 http://www.dcrblogs.com/2007/12/10/isaac-asimov-prophet/#comment-5489 [...] Independent Discoveries. Notice how Nina a.k.a. The Alien Next Door responds to my post responding to her post? Jon even got a mention for his part. But note how she uses an example from [...] [...] Independent Discoveries. Notice how Nina a.k.a. The Alien Next Door responds to my post responding to her post? Jon even got a mention for his part. But note how she uses an example from [...]

]]> http://www.dcrblogs.com/2007/12/10/isaac-asimov-prophet/#comment-5267 Jon Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:49:38 +0000 http://www.dcrblogs.com/2007/12/10/isaac-asimov-prophet/#comment-5267 It's always the monkeys. It’s always the monkeys.

]]> http://www.dcrblogs.com/2007/12/10/isaac-asimov-prophet/#comment-5250 SF Girl Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:08:33 +0000 http://www.dcrblogs.com/2007/12/10/isaac-asimov-prophet/#comment-5250 Hmmm...I like your take on this interesting phenomenon of prophesy vs coincidence...How much of this is related to the phenomenon known as "multiple independent discoveries"?... MID describes when scientists, "visionaries" or authors in the same society arrive at the same innovation or major thought independently of each other at approximately the same time. Sociologists argue that this is a function of either social context or to the qualities of the individuals making the discovery or innovation. In other words.... the time was right for it to happen or be made or written... A kind of gestalt tapping into a giant consciousness Hmmm…I like your take on this interesting phenomenon of prophesy vs coincidence…How much of this is related to the phenomenon known as “multiple independent discoveries”?… MID describes when scientists, “visionaries” or authors in the same society arrive at the same innovation or major thought independently of each other at approximately the same time. Sociologists argue that this is a function of either social context or to the qualities of the individuals making the discovery or innovation. In other words…. the time was right for it to happen or be made or written… A kind of gestalt tapping into a giant consciousness

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