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Client/server models of any kind of social organization are typically objectionable on the basis of fragility, single points of failure, lack of feedback, and simple unfairness: Who gets to be the server? Who guards the guards? Finance now has an aesthetically minded design that patently doesn’t work, and what’s more, nobody seems to be bothered th

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More like a space elevator. It’s called the Bauman transfer system. A vast network of elevators going in all different directions in ten-dimensional space–time. Some are mainlines, some are branches, some are endpoints.

it is only a matter of a few years, soon after the turn of the millennium, until bandwidth becomes sufficiently capacious to make technically possible the “metaverse,” the alternative, cyberspace world imagined by the science fiction novelist Neal Stephenson.