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The lesson here is that the same channels of optical fiber networks that flatten media down to a universal symbolic regimen can also be employed to leverage that same regimen to write out or write-protect any
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A recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations.
By Kyle Chayka
October 30, 2024
Illustration by Ariel Davis
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The blockchain transforms the architecture of the Internet from the bottom up. Vitalik Buterin’s Ethereum transforms the network from an array of parochial hierarchies to a global heterarchy anchored in a new model of security. Austin Russell is bringing unique hardware innovations to a Valley full of vain software omnivores and centralized computi
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A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
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the threshold for an attack may actually be lower than 51 percent.