Edition-123 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!
- About bewildered machines and scientists and artists elevating each other: http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/we-are-all-bewildered-machines
- About critical freshness: http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-signal-network/
- About the politicising of the SWIFT payments system: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/11/how-trumps-game-of-chicken-with-iran-could-weaken-the-dollars-role-as-the-worlds-currency.html
- About the use of this connectivity still being only just the beginning. Great talk by Ben Evens from Andreessen Horowitz: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/11/16/the-end-of-the-beginning
- About the famous 1962 quote by Arthur C. Clarke and some contemporary reflections on it: http://lab.cccb.org/en/arthur-c-clarke-any-sufficiently-advanced-technology-is-indistinguishable-from-magic/
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