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Technology

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Technology

Nine games computers are ruining for humanity

What gets lost for players when computers are trained, expertly, in competing at our games?…

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Culture

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation — Sam Anderson

Best magazine essay I’ve read in the last year. No jokes about skimming: read it.

Over the last several years, the problem of attention has

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Culture

Brewster Kahle – How Google Threatens Books

Broad access is the greatest promise of our digital age. Giving control over such access to one company, no matter how clever or popular, is …

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Technology

Twitter To Add On Live-Time Wikipedia News Thingey!

[Link.] Twitter is going to turn its search results into a real-time Google News-Wikipedia mash-up? Or, you could say, a giant topic-indexed blog …

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Culture

Wikipedia and Cities

[Via NYTimes.com.] Wikipedia can no more be completed than can New York City, which O. Henry predicted would be “a great place if …

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Technology

The New York Times Makes Comical Statements About the Internet, 1995-2009 [Standards]

The New York Times Makes Comical Statements About the Internet, 1995-2009 [Standards]
The New York Times has issued a formal set of standards for their …

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Culture

Engineers figure out how to harness the power of technology; economists figure out how to harness the power of incentives. Our prosperity relies on both.

Engineers figure out how to harness the power of technology; economists figure out how to harness the power of incentives. Our prosperity relies on both.…

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Linkblog

Dreaming In Code (Metropolis)

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Jonathan Harris distills the Web’s infinite avalanche of thoughts, facts, and feelings into exquisitely framed portraits of humanity.
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One late-winter morning Jonathan …

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