How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
Bankers and prophets seem to be driven by an almost poetic compulsion to push further.
stressfm-feed: It’s an astonishing look inside the cultural change still needed in the shift to digital — even in one of the world’s greatest newsrooms. Read it. (via The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key… more ›
“If the matrix and the recursive list are, in a sense, the basic data structures of software, the story is the basic data structure of human beings.” – Cyberflow – OpenMind more ›
“the information revolution is moving from personal to intimate.” – Opinion: Google Glass signals a wearables revolution – CNN.com more ›
Glass is Google’s unintentional public service announcement on the future of privacy. (via Reflections on Google Glass — D-RAD) more ›
“What to do: Find out where you are Take a small step towards your goal Adjust your understanding based on what you learned Repeat How to do it: When faced with two of more alternatives that deliver roughly the same value, take the… more ›
“The ultimate goal of signals intelligence and analysis is to learn not only what is being said, and what is being done, but what is being thought.” – NSA: THE DECISION PROBLEM | Edge.org more ›
“we can imagine the entirety of network communication for the last decade—the Big Haul—as a single, deep-and-wide digital simulation of the world (or a significant section of it). It is an archive, a library of the real. Its existence as… more ›
“In the construction of the User as an aggregate profile that both is and is not specific to any one entity, there is no identity to deduce other than the pattern of interaction between partial actors.” – The Black Stack… more ›
“Everyday interactions replay the Turing Test over and over. Is there a person behind this machine, and if so, how much?” – The Black Stack | e-flux more ›
The Black Stack, by Benjamin Bratton | e-flux | » Planetary-scale computation takes different forms at different scales: energy grids and mineral sourcing; chthonic cloud infrastructure; urban software and public service privatization; massive universal addressing systems; interfaces drawn by the… more ›