Andrew Russell and Lee Vinsel on the New York Times: While innovation — the social process of introducing new things — is important, most technologies around us are old, and for the smooth functioning of daily life, maintenance is more important. […] It’s not just maintenance that our society fails to appreciate; it’s also the […]

Robin Hanson: First, we should seriously worry about which aspects of our modern civilization system are rotting. Human culture has lasted a million years, but many parts of our modern world are far younger. If the first easiest version of a system that we can find to do something is typically be a rotting system, […]

Real Life è un nuovo magazine (sponsorizzato da Snapchat) curato da Nathan Jurgenson, uno di quelli che da tempo spiega in maniera più efficiente e intelligente come la rete stia influenzano il nostro modo di comunicare e stare assieme, contestando l’idea molto diffusa che i rapporti che intessiamo online — le nostre interazioni “virtuali” — abbiano meno valore di […]