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Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century
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In our reality, Ted Nelson served as a muse rather than the Internet’s architect. Legend has it that he conceived of Xanadu as an antidote (or amplifier) for his attention deficit disorder. He dreamed of a word processor that allowed users to surf through and freely explore associations, related material, and alternate contexts of any given piece o
... See moreCharles Broskoski • Counter Currents: Are.na on Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib/Dream Machines
As we move from the 1950s to the 1970s and then to 2008, we notice a problem. A perfectly good idea morphed into another good idea, spread beyond housing, and then culminated in uncontrolled insanity. By 2008, no one, including the management of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or the Department of Housing and Urban Development, had any idea of the fragi
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
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The spreading “institutional matrix” for science-based industry was fed by the impressive American investment in higher education, including the extensive network of the 1862 Morrill Act land grant colleges. The undergraduate population grew from 52,300 in 1870 to 237,000 in 1900, and the number of graduate students jumped from fewer than fifty to
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
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