How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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“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 ›
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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 ›
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stressfm-feed: The information age is powered by thin fiber-optic cables buried in the sea bed, spreading between continents to connect the most remote corners of the planet. (via What the Internet looks like: The undersea cables wiring the ends of… more ›
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The secret sauce that lets Aether achieve that simplicity is machine learning. Each time you spin its dial, Cone learns something about you. By taking note of what you skip past and what you listen to, it slowly puts together… more ›
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(via Critical Exploits. Interrogating Infrastructure – we make money not art) Critical Exploits showed how a new generation of artists, designers and engineers are taking a highly critical approach to the development and use of the engineered systems and infrastructures… more ›
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“Cyberprotests express the absence of any verifiable and binding agreement between the system and its users. Digital equivalents to strikes and blockades are framed as crimes against property and profit.” – Captives of the Cloud, Part III: All Tomorrow’s Clouds… more ›
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“The app is the aperture through which the Cloud redraws the city.” – BRATTON.INFO – texts – on apps and elementary forms of interfacial life more ›
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“The app is a thin membrane on top of a vast machine, but one which nevertheless allows its user to pilot (and be piloted by) that machine with the slightest gesture.” – BRATTON.INFO – texts – on apps and elementary… more ›
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“What do we mean by “the digital”? Anything created on a computer? Anything on a screen? Made out of code? Active? Networked? The speakers will address this “binary” approach where things are digital or analogue, physical or virtual, real or… more ›
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The elements of networked urbanism | Speedbird » 1. From latent to explicit; 2. From browse to search; 3. From held to shared; 4. From expiring to persistent; 5. From deferred to real-time; 6. From passive to interactive; 7.… more ›