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Juan Benet: Long Term Info-structure

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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The History of Computing in Diagrams

i'll go through the entire history of computing in diagrams really quickly. A, you can find much drastically better explanations from other people but i want you to get a feel for for what's really going on. Most of the advancements in computing can be boiled down to just how can we get bits of data to different places faster or better or more securely? So maybe you can't prove something to be true, but we can certainly prove a lot of things to be not true. And a, those things shouldn't be coopting and mind controlling people any more.

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