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Convivial is a great word whose roots mean “compatible with life.”
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
In the *internet of assets –* the casino layer of the web – who cares about workers? One vending machine per child. Do not worry, there is no need for intermediaries. The only thing needed is a public ledger devouring energy to *decentralise* the verification of all economic transactions concentrated within the chain of preference.
The Ghostchain. (Or taking things for what they are)
paletten.net
People often comment on how extreme his early life was, Ballard said. Yet, far from being extreme, that early life — beset by hunger, fear, war and the constant threat of death — is the default condition for most human beings on the planet, now and in every previous century. It is the comfortable life of the Western Suburbanite which is in every way the planetary exception.
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