How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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Untweeted #298 San Franciso is Venice. more ›
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Untweeted #875 If you want to see the future of the United States, look at Italy. more ›
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ongoing by Tim Bray · Software in 2014 » more ›
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“And it’s basically all being driven by Netflix. Everyone in the browser world is convinced that not supporting Netflix will lead to total marginalization, and Netflix demands that computers be designed to keep secrets from, and disobey, their owners (so… more ›
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“The most bracing part of Mancuso’s talk on bioinspiration came when he discussed underground plant networks. Citing the research of Suzanne Simard, a forest ecologist at the University of British Columbia, and her colleagues, Mancuso showed a slide depicting how… more ›
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“Science fiction is a literature about the way things *aren’t,*” – The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 more ›
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“We’ve got dialogue conventions that work on a page, but we don’t have any SMS conventions. They’re inelegant. The result is that literary language loses vitality. It’s out of touch with the digital vernacular of popular speech.” – The WELL:… more ›
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“It’s hard to write fiction about technology because the structure of language is mutating.” – The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 more ›