Tanuj

Disruptive innovations don’t compete against incumbents, they compete with nonconsumption. They start where there is no competition, at the low-end of a market, or in a completely new market. What they offer is not better. It is different. It shifts the basis of competition.

[..] it doesn’t give new web developers a kick in the right direction, it doesn’t explain how a website works but just...shows you the code.

If you’re trying to do impossible things, this effect should chill you to your bones. It means you could be intellectually stuck right at this very moment, with the evidence right in front of your face and you just can’t see it.

an intriguing possibility – using a proxy for human thought as an optimization target for creating human-like artificial intelligence.

In the course of learning about the flavor, chemistry and textures of meat and so forth, we know quite a lot about the difference between pork and beef. And we know other meats from animals, so to speak, where you set the knobs with respect to the flavor chemistry. And we can navigate that whole space. We can create things that would be... See more

Technology is not neutral. These tools, processes and systems favour some paths and necessarily disfavour others. The technology-maker decides what to value and endorse, helping to perpetuate some moral slant or system. Even if two technologies have the same ends, differing paths can generate divergent consequences — Facebook and Instagram might... See more

“Histography" is interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015.