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Luciano Floridi

Italian-British philosopher of information and digital ethics; founding director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University and professor at the University of Bologna; author of The Fourth Revolution.

1 book on the record · 5 Feb 2015 – 5 Feb 2015

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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Republic by Plato

The point I try to glean from that particular feature in the great architecture of the Republic is the following: some people have their attention captured constantly by social media – it could be by cats on Facebook.

on fivebooks.com · 5 Feb 2015 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.