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In these past two hundred thousand years, humans have incubated a dataome. That dataome has, as evidenced across the pages of this book, become increasingly intertwined with our survival and our behavior as a species. By several measures, including the comparison of global NOPS and FLOPs capacities, and the rise of our metalworld’s resource demands
... See moreCaleb Scharf • The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
The statistical properties of non-equilibrium systems can help us understand the nonhuman origins of information but not its endurance. Yet it is the endurance of information that allows information to be recombined and allows life and the economy to emerge. The endurance of information is therefore as important as its origin, since without it the
... See moreCesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Serendipitous discoveries often involve exchanges across traditional disciplines.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
political and economic interests
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
Gruber’s Darwin on Man is both the canonical study of Darwin’s intellectual journey toward the idea of natural selection and one of the most insightful books on scientific creativity ever written.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
