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Garry Kasparov on chess, technology and democracy

The TED Interview

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The Bus Screams - A Review

Alfred starts screaming on a bus and triggers genuine responses from the people around him. He sees it as a harmless way to create an environment where he can elicit extreme reactions without actually physically hurting anyone. When i started writing about where this would go, you know, i quickly found myself in kind of extreme territory. Because what happens if you want to always see unmediated reactions? That can become a kind of compulsion unto itself. And that's really what we see in alfred.

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