"Every new medium (read: technology) has four sets of effects, he said, which can be best discovered in answers to four questions: What does the medium enhance What does the medium make obsolete? What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier? What does the medium reverse, or flip into, when pushed to extremes?" … Continue reading Redecentralize the Internet
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Notes on an Emergency
"But at the same time, I’m not convinced that a civilization that is struggling to cure male-pattern baldness is ready to take on the Grim Reaper. If we’re going to worry about existential risk, I would rather we start by addressing the two existential risks that are indisputably real—nuclear war and global climate change—and working … Continue reading Notes on an Emergency
