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You prefer to cling on to your potential as a pristine hypothetical, that's why you never let yourself try

He argues that a low entropy, or predictable and stable, carrier is required for the emergence of knowledge -- whether it be a fiber optic cable and communication, or a social system governed by the rule of law and economic innovation. Such a social system is not spontaneous, but rather developed through sacrifice and a religious order.

George Gilder • George Gilder on knowledge, power, and the economy

Since the end of World War II, hundreds of industry-changing, or industry-creating, discoveries originating in the US—including GPS, personal computers, the biotechnology industry, the internet, pacemakers, artificial hearts, magnetic resonance imaging, the chemotherapy cure for childhood leukemia, even the original Google search algorithm—sprang f

Safi Bahcall • Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

The NEW XANADU STRUCTURE FOR THE WEB

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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In our reality, Ted Nelson served as a muse rather than the Internet’s architect. Legend has it that he conceived of Xanadu as an antidote (or amplifier) for his attention deficit disorder. He dreamed of a word processor that allowed users to surf through and freely explore associations, related material, and alternate contexts of any given piece o

Charles Broskoski • Counter Currents: Are.na on Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib/Dream Machines

Tools For Thought

Michael Tier • 1 card

Letters to the president must be screened, and only those that were essential for him to read should be placed before him. A smoothly functioning staff system was long overdue. Ike was determined to keep routine matters out of the White House, saving his time to deal with those of major importance.

Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace

Like Vannevar Bush, who insisted, as described in chapter 1, that he “made no technical contribution whatever to the war effort,” Catmull saw his job as minding the system rather than managing the projects.