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Category: Essays

  • Kleptocracy

    The difference between the extremely wealthy and the rest of humanity lies often in their power to remain invisible. Their political strategies are hidden from public scrutiny, their business practices disguised… more ›

  • Fake real

    “If you don’t like it – it’s fake. If you do like it, it’s faux.” The subtle and hilarious distinction was made by the author Joseph Pine in a famous TED Talk… more ›

  • Truth community

    Connecting everyone in the world to the internet and democratizing access to information was once a noble and unlikely goal – before the smartphone revolution. Today, digital literacy is embedded… more ›

  • Medieval information

    Claude Shannon, American mathematician, a stern but somewhat kind dark look in his eyes, defined information as the measure of novelty or surprise one can expect in a message -… more ›