Why good innovations mint new elites — and how to tell the dangerous cases from the merely disruptive Every year something like forty thousand Americans die on the roads. The strongest large-scale data we have — from driverless fleets logging hundreds of millions of miles — suggests that within the limited areas where they operate, … Continue reading The Friction and the Fortress
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What Counts as Thinking: Knowledge Externalization Beyond Prose
The Pattern That Demands Explanation For roughly three thousand years, each major technology of knowledge externalization — oral formulaic composition, writing, apprenticeship, formal pedagogy, digital demonstration — has provoked the same institutional response: practitioners of the prior mode declared that "real" thinking had been lost. Each time, the declaration was partially correct about what was … Continue reading What Counts as Thinking: Knowledge Externalization Beyond Prose
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