Link Archipelago
December 2, 2009
- Kevin Kelly’s TED talk based on his upcoming book. “Technology is anything useful that a human mind makes. It’s not just hammers and other other gadgets, but it’s also laws and cities…” And, “the answer to bad technology is better technology.”
- A very cool debt clock.
- “Great cities have long been built by great gamblers, and Dubai’s sheik may well be the second greatest city-builder — after the Chinese government — of our age. Many of those gamblers have ended up bankrupt, but their structural legacies remain, providing the space that connects humanity and facilitates the success of our urban world.”– Ed Glaeser on the lessons of Dubai
- When the government acts as a VC with other people’s money, the kingmaker DOE may kill innovation.
- Eric Falkenstein on Paul Romer’s Growth Theory.
- The co-writer of Pulp Fiction sends himself back to jail with a Tweet.
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