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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future • Trust Economies - The Future of Social Networks
It’s a tablet, once considered the go-to device for science fiction stories about the future—my past—but they stopped being used when it was proven they changed brain chemistry, creating a vast societal addiction that reduced productivity and created generations of people capable of ignoring the world’s growing problems.
Jeremy Robinson • Infinite (Infinite Timeline Book 1)
On Technology
Sriya Sridhar • 4 cards
Wiener was as worldly as Shannon was reticent. He was well traveled and polyglot, ambitious and socially aware; he took science personally and passionately. His expression of the second law of thermodynamics, for example, was a cry of the heart: We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization, which tends to reduce everything to
... See moreJames Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Even in physics, some of the most fundamental explanations, and the predictions that they make, are not reductive.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
The microwave hums and rotates his noodle cup while he waits. Cooking by magnet-blasting radiation, causing food molecules to beat the shit out of each other: Who comes up with this stuff, figures out how to market it? Whoever that guy is, he’s probably swimming naked in a pile of cash somewhere, surrounded by supermodels. Life is unfair.
Shelby Van Pelt • Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Read with Jenna Pick
Physics of Cyberspace
Shuya Gong • 1 card
How Hidden Technology Transformed Bowling
m.youtube.comPut another way, this potential energy lowers itself as a frequency of wave patterns until it appears as solid.