How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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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 ›
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stressfm-feed: Bruce Sterling / transmediale 2014 afterglow Opening Ceremony (by transmediale) more ›
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(via The Technium | Kevin Kelly @ Edge.org) “we are still at the beginning of the beginning. We have just started to make a technological society. The technological changes in the next 20 years will dwarf those of the last… more ›
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“Super-jurisdiction means that the law of one country can, through various forms of cooperation and association implied by server locations and network connections, be extended into and enacted in another.” – Captives of the Cloud: Part I | e-flux more ›
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“Now, what were you using? An app? a widget? Native code? What programming language? Did you install an app or surf the web? I’d suggest that none of those questions would really mean anything, at least not as we think… more ›
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“In other words, a brown Mark Zuckerberg is not going to change the fact that kids of color continue to be underrepresented in STEM” – The Problem With the Zuckerberg Analogy for Youth of Color, by Kortney Ziegler | Model… more ›