New book from James Gleick about the history of the telephone. “It gave us the party line, the busy signal, dial tones, wiretapping, the late-night DJ, and the booty call. It magnified the possibilities of government, of business, of friendship, of love.”
It’s time to install an app! But here in 1986, we still call them “programs,” not apps. So, you’ll want to set aside som…
Why politics is better off if damnation is religion’s job
"In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves."
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
Dan’s subheadline is: “A modest proposal...”;
Why it's so hard to predict the AI future. The post Tech People Don’t Know What’s Going to Happen Either appeared first…
How geography shaped the country we know today
Why giving AI the ability to own property, enforce contracts, and sue would benefit humans
Some speculations about fantasy, anticipation, dread, and the shortage of scarcity
Lecture 3 of Frederic Schuller’s Theoretical Mechanics, translated from the German
Perfect Play ran over 300 million games of Monopoly to determine the best strategy and the most common mistakes players make. I turned eight classic Monopoly strategies into computer players and made them play 312,898,560 games against each other. At a table of four, the best one won 43% of its game...
Read slowly. There is no hurry.