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The Populations of Bread & Rice

Since a person consumes about 2,000 kca per

Tomas Pueyo • How Bread vs Rice Molded History

For most of history, humanity’s challenge was how to acquire scarce information. There was hardly any good information to be found anywhere. It was locked up in difficult-to-reproduce manuscripts or stuck in the heads of scholars. Access to information was limited, but that wasn’t a problem for most people. Their lives and livelihoods didn’t requir

Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

The history of technology and globalization are the expansion and connection of knowledge. All written knowledge, from the Rosetta Stone, to the Talmud, to the modern academic paper, are graph structure. Yet, 21st century digital media still imitates the linear scroll.

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Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology

Lizzie O'Shea

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All That Is Solid Melts Into Information

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It can be translated. It can be produced and consumed at variable speeds. It is asynchronous. It can be compared, diffed, clustered, corrected, summarized and filtered algorithmically. It permits multiparty editing. It permits branching conversations, lurking, annotation, quoting, reviewing, summarizing, structured responses, exegesis, even fan fic... See more

orders of magnitude • Always Bet on Text

our relation to the space-time axis will be very different from what we have lived with for millennia. We will be swimming in impulses and data—the microchip will make us offers that will be very hard to refuse.

Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Many people nowadays admiringly quote the performance gains of modern computing (“so much data”) or telecommunication (“so much cheaper”)—but what about harvests? In two centuries, the human labor to produce a kilogram of American wheat was reduced from 10 minutes to less than two seconds. This is how our modern world really works.

Vaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.”