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The Missing Manual for the Future
Tim O’Reilly’s Four Cylinder Innovation Engine O’Reilly Media, is famous for is producing “missing manuals” for new technologies, but thinking of O’Reilly as just a publisher of books would be like...
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Musing about 2011 and an un-national generation
If you haven’t heard of William Stafford before, you should try and spend some time reading his poetry. Stafford, who died in 1993, was made the US equivalent of Poet Laureate in 1970, and was known...
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Mitigating the Risks of Artificial Superintelligence
“Existential risk” refers to the risk that the human race as a whole might be annihilated. In other words: human extinction risk, or species-level genocide. This is an important concept because, as...
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Cognitive Cities: How Network Technology is Changing the City
I moved to Amsterdam a couple years ago, with a background in multimedia art and an acquired interest in architecture. It turned out that, if you like both new media and the built environment, the...
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The Week In Data
During our work this week, we stumbled upon The Country Comparator, a project “based on OECD data, created using HTML5 and Raphael JS.” OECD data? Raphael JS? HTML5? Be still our beating hearts. The...
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