How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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Glass is Google’s unintentional public service announcement on the future of privacy. (via Reflections on Google Glass — D-RAD) more ›
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“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 ›
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“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 ›
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“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 ›
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“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 ›
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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 ›