How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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“we need to figure out how to adequately represent “software performances” as “data.”” – The Algorithms of Our Lives – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education more ›
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“The internet is a great international distribution tool, but it’s also a marketing tool. So if you’re going to market something to people and then not give it to them, you’re asking for trouble. You’re asking for piracy.” – Netflix’s… more ›
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Netflix's Ted Sarandos: the 'evil genius' behind a TV revolution » more ›
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“The web isn’t magic. It’s not some faraway place we just ‘connect’ to, but a vast and complex system of computers, connected by actual wires under the ground and the oceans. Every time you open a website, you’re visiting a… more ›
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A word from our host Hello there. You might have noticed that all the previous posts were published in rapid succession. That’s because I’ve been busy importing some of the research posted elsewhere (mostly here and here and here). That’s done. So… more ›
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Netflix has a server architecture that currently serves a pretty high percentage of all of the internet’s traffic, due to their streaming video service. One of the most interesting things about their server architecture is that they routinely attack their… more ›
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“Data mining, on the scale now practiced by Google and the NSA, is the realization of what Alan Turing was getting at, in 1939, when he wondered “how far it is possible to eliminate intuition, and leave only ingenuity,” in… more ›
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“Without humans inhabiting their guts, technological systems cannot process much of the arbitrariness of the world (Amazon’s Mechanical Turk illustrates this most dramatically at scale).” – You Are Not an Artisan more ›
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Computers were invented as crypto-ware and spy-ware and control-ware. That’s what Alan Turing was all about. That’s where computing came from, that’s the scene’s original sin, and also its poisoned apple. It’s a wrestling match of virtuality and actuality, an… more ›
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Samsung Smart TV 2013 (UK) more ›