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We evaluate the environmental impact of technologies in the context of the mitigations that are currently available, not in the context of hypothetical future mitigations. By the same token, we can’t evaluate A.I. by imagining how helpful it will be in a world with U.B.I.; we have to evaluate it in light of the existing imbalance between capital and labor, and, in that context, A.I. is a threat because of the way it assists capital.
Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
newyorker.com
Most studies put America’s parking supply at a little under a billion spaces. Under the assumption that each space (including egress) takes up 330 square feet, if we were to lay it all flat, the asphalt would cover the entire state of Connecticut—twice.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
To be clear, there is nothing particularly “distributed” about the apps themselves: they’re just normal react websites. The “distributedness” refers to where the state and the logic/permissions for updating the state lives: on the blockchain instead of in a “centralized” database.
My First Impressions of Web3
moxie.org
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