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Depends on your definition of "real world" I guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization

How is this interesting or useful?

He is right. None of this has any obvious utility.

Here's the thing. If we're talking about a material object, there would be a more or less clear distinction between "what it is", "how it's made", "how it's used", etc. If we're ta…

By concentrating power in the hands of unelected, unaccountable institutions. By fragmenting the cognitive capacities of regular human beings. By letting hatred and insanity reach …

I though the point of personal computing was to make it easy to think, not to make it unnecessary ? If you think the firehose of self-referential click-bait needs to be made even m…

What this line of reasoning seems to be missing is that society seems to be getting worse largely because of software.