Book Review
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If we could see alternate realities, would we want to take a look?
Well, here we are. After many weeks (and a somewhat inconsistent publishing schedule), we have arrived at the final story…
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What is the purpose of belief in a world of innovation?
We are reading the penultimate short story in Ted Chiang’s collection Exhalation. Omphalos questions what it means to believe: in…
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Why you can’t overlook the small details in the pursuit of innovation
This week, we read a very short story, The Great Silence, as we start to head toward the end of…
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With better recall of our photos and videos, will our ability to forgive disappear?
We’re cruising through the short stories in Ted Chiang’s collection Exhalation. Today, we read one of the most popular from…
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How do we connect a child to technology?
We are now onto the fifth short story of nine in Ted Chiang’s collection Exhalations. This one is a very…
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With the development of generalized AI, what’s the meaning of a person?
For the next installment of the informal TechCrunch book club, we are reading the fourth story in Ted Chiang’s Exhalation.…
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Can we debate free will versus destiny in four pages?
The informal TechCrunch book club (which is now a whole week off schedule thanks to the news cycle — let’s…
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The nation-state of the internet
The internet is a community, but can it be a nation-state? It’s a question that I have been pondering on…
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How issues of microtransit, congestion and parking are closing in on cities
Earlier this week in a new experimental newsletter I’ve been helping Danny Crichton on, we briefly discussed transit pundit Jarrett…
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