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George Boole tried to formalize human reason in his 1854 treatise on mathematical logic, The Laws of Thought. This work was based on the oldest insight in the psychological book—that man is a rational animal—and, as there was not yet a formal field of psychology in Boole’s time, he built on the Enlightenment’s renewed enthusiasm in reasoning and rationality.
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Embedded deep in the technium (as we now know it) is the remarkable capacity of half-again annual improvement. The optimism of our age rests on the reliable advance of Moore’s promise: that stuff will get significantly, seriously, desirably better and cheaper tomorrow. If the things we make will get better the next time, that means that the golden age is ahead of us, and not in the past.
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Clout is the values-free currency of the always-online age—both a substitute for hard cash as well as a conduit to it. Clout is a calculus not of what you do, but of how much bulk you-ness there is in the world. You get clout by playing the victim. You get clout by victimizing others. This is something that is understood by the left and the right. If influence sways, clout squats, taking up space for its own sake.
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