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History of communication

There’s a great post on Ars Technica on the history of the noosphere. The ‘noosphere’ is the term people use for the network as an ethereal communications medium – a place of pure thought, in other words, that transcends whatever physical manifestation that instantiates the medium. If you were online in 1996, you remember some [...]

Not being evil?

I just came across this nugget in the Washington Post: Congress has failed to pass legislation regarding so-called “Net Neutrality,” and now the issue is again top of mind as Internet providers seeking preferential treatment; network operators considering a tiered approach, and once-staunch defenders beginning to soften their stance on the matter. This time, it [...]

This goes a long way toward explaining everything

You’ve seen the strange clusters so often you don’t wonder anymore why they’re strange. For instance: why do people who think government should be small get fighting mad at the implication that humans have caused global warming? And why do libertarians inevitably have beards? Or at least some kind of weird facial hair that looks [...]