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Has Achieved Nirvana |
WSJ article - paywall
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(self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity |
Can't get past the paywall (without some browser gymnastics) but... So only scientists can live in this city?
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
You can get to the article by going to Google News and doing a search for A Prince’s $500 Billion Desert Dream.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
I can't get to it now either. Maybe somebody with a subscription will cut and paste? The biggest problem I see is going to be water. Cloud seeding has not worked in the past and is not likely to work now. Desalinization is a possibility but on that scale it will take a tremendous amount of power.
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"I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
How 'bout a simpler idea: Some people have more money than sense. Engineered cities often work less well, much less well, than cities that have evolved slowly within dynamic societies. | |||
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(self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity |
That has always been my impression. P.S. thanks for the tip, WTG, that's what I meant by browser gymnastics. I can actually access WSJ and most any other newspaper by going through my university's library website
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Minor Deity |
Ditto. Sometimes I'm amazed at what I can access through the university library. I'm even more amazed at how far students can get through the university system before they realize what's available to them. I once told a PhD student that he could access the major newspapers through his student account at the library and he was gobsmacked. He had a master's degree in journalism from an Ivy League school, he had two nonfiction books in print, and he'd held an editorial position at a newspaper in one of the country's top ten markets. It had just never occurred to him that he had that resource. We're drowning in information, y'all.
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(self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity |
I'm teaching online this summer, so students aren't on campus and they don't realize that if they access Google or Google Scholar through the library's webpages, they won't hit paywalls (for popular press or academic articles), or if they can find a title of an article they want, they can search for it directly through the library website and get it for free. I have this information plastered all over the course in multiple spots, I have all the links, the how-tos, everything. But I always get a student who will say "I can't write this paper because I can't afford to pay for the sources."
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Minor Deity |
That 10th one...in a nation known for repression. What could go wrong?
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Minor Deity |
Say, that "city-state of the future" wouldn't happen to also codify religious liberty, freedom of speech and the press, and equal rights for women, would it?
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Want the robot maids. The rest can wait.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Aside from the availability of liquor it sounds like the city would be the same as the rest of the country.
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