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He Fled Google to Build on Bitcoin in Texas. Canonic’s Founder Warns What’s Next
In the plains of the American Steppe, a company charts a decentralized future
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In praise of Big Tech
Digital sovereignty is important, but there are times when it’s ok to let it take a back seat to growth.
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Escaping the Cage
How organoids can help free animals from lab testing.
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Seeing Stars
Online rating is a way to feel powerful when nothing else seems changeable.
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The Internet Taught Me to Drive
Get in.
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The Smart Money on ESG’s Refugees
New firms like Strive offer values-based opportunities outside the Wall Street bubble. Can they source the talent to deliver?
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Work and Pray
For Bitcoin to be sustainable, miners must embrace institutions and the centralization and discipline they entail.
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A Revolution Without Guns?
From Buenos Aires, Martín Borchardt has launched a quiet and effective revolution.
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All Surface and No Feeling
What’s lost when the concrete sensibility of buttons gives way to the flatness of the touchscreen and the kiosk.
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The Selecting Hand
As we gain the freedom to diversify the forms of value we enact, we may yet discover thousands more.
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Disappear Here
If ghosting is the sign that a person lacks the will or the ability to hold their end of the social contract, muting implies a fear of abandonment and an absence of emotional hygiene.
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Photocopy the Web
How to create a digital stockpile in a time of disappearing data.
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A Server of One’s Own
A step-by-step guide to running your own personal server.
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Countries Without Borders
With the support of Balaji Srinivasan, Afropolitan wants to put a new, more hopeful kind of nation-building into action.
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Are You Paying Attention?
Whether difference or disorder, ADHD is the psychological marrow of the information age.
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Digital Monastic
For Terry Davis, the computer was a vessel for the divine.
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The Nuclear Realist
For Emmet Penney, nuclear advocacy is about doing your homework.
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Are You Sure You’re Not a Robot?
Down and out on the CAPTCHA farm.
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The Trolley Problem
Style versus function in the race to improve urban transit.
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Web 1.0
The internet of the ‘90s was a spectacular dream to live through. The internet we believed in is long gone.
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