Author: KB
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‘Our Presence in the Church of Technology’ | Herds | Paying for Twitter?
An interesting article here on ‘oiling the digital society’… We are bootstrapping a new world, one in which information technology and computational systems are as deeply embedded in our society as the scientific method or religious belief seem to be, and the precise names of the gods we worship is less important than our presence…
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The Three Body Problem | Incalcuability
After hearing a chance snippet of something on the radio last week, I’ve been thinking about what is known in Mathematics/Physics/Astronomy as the ‘three body problem.’ It remains one of the great questions in Mathematics as to whether it will ever be solved, or if indeed it actually can be. The essence of the problem…
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Inherent Vice: New Pynchon Novel
Just back from holiday, and just hear that Thomas Pynchon has a new book out. For any fans of this most difficult, funny, bawdy and darkly brilliant writers these are nervous times: will we understand a word of it, let alone the many hundred-thousands of words that some of his books can run to. The…
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And After Vaux There Was… Apple
Exactly 40 years ago Apollo 11 began its mission to send the first human beings onto another body in space – perhaps the most important and profound achievement in the history of mankind. Only twelve men ever achieved this, but for the first time we had transcended, albeit momentarily, the physicality of the planet we…