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How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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The world’s economy is completely dependent on petrochemicals. Is there any way to avoid them? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/02/24-hours-without-oil-based-products?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/JIECfhz That’s what the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang wanted to learn. So he turned Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations into an oratorio. We tag along as Lang’s piece heads toward its world premiere with the New York… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/fts06gV What comes after the human? We’re living through multiple crises — ecological, technological, political. But beneath all of that is something even deeper: a crisis of the self. Who are we, really? How did we come to see… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/H4WdyTN This year marks the centenary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s novel, The Trial – a seminal work that continues to captivate and unsettle its readers. EI’s Alastair Benn and Paul Lay are joined by Karolina Watroba, author… more ›
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Key Questions on Energy and AI – Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency. https://www.iea.org/reports/key-questions-on-energy-and-ai more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/jIlv2W6 For episode 200 (!) of The Fire These Times, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor join Dana & Elia to talk about their piece “the rise of end times fascism.” Naomi Klein is the author of Doppelganger, On Fire,… more ›
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William Gibson is laconic. Which isn’t too surprising, given that the author of Neuromancer is famous for his spare, incisive prose style. We sat down http://io9.com/william-gibson-on-the-apocalypse-america-and-the-peri-1656659382 more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/7FYc3iD Big tech companies are directing a huge portion of their capital expenditures to artificial intelligence—at least $650 billion in the coming year. The effect is to stimulate the economy in the short term but what happens in the… more ›