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  • Link: “An era of unbounded malignant complexity”

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    O’Reilly interviews Mickey McManus, a researcher at Autodesk, about the extreme complexity that IoT will unleash.  It’s definitely worth fifteen minutes of your day to listen to this:   credit : O’Reilly Radar

  • Why email sucks 

    We may despise our inboxes (and 99% of what’s in them), but we’re neurochemically compelled to make sure that there isn’t something potentially important or pleasurable lurking in there this time. And then five minutes from now. And then again. And again. “The internal stimulus is the one that gets you,” Rosen says. “On balance,…

  • The internet remembers too much…

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    Excellent talk (transcript) by Maciej Ceglowski. This is just a brief extract: I’ve come to believe that a lot of what’s wrong with the Internet has to do with memory. The Internet somehow contrives to remember too much and too little at the same time, and it maps poorly on our concepts of how memory…