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Stafford Beer and Gordon Pask were building a pond that thinks. Their biological computing project set out to build ecosystems with inputs and outputs, that could function as computers. Beer also reported attempts to induce small organisms—Daphnia collected from a local pond—to…
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I’ve been reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy recently, a near-future sci-fi epic of terraforming, ecology, politics, big history. One of the…
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It seems that if you compost an internet’s worth of written knowledge, the text starts to speak back. When pushed to its extreme, literature gives birth…
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How does this change the internet? A handful of guesses.
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In his book The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama describes a political dilemma called the bad emperor problem. Here is the bad emperor…
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TLDR: we have raised a seed round to further our mission of building a decentralized commons for thought. We’re building an open protocol, and an app on…
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While analyzing a global history databank spanning 10,000 years, Shin, et al found a disconcerting pattern. Civilizations scale until they are…
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Imagine a notebook. It lives on your computer, and is encrypted with keys only you have access to. This notebook is designed to last decades, a…
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