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Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time. Digital codes are... →
I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that... →
If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.
When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn't life, any more than... →
I read the Drudge Report! And wander around Facebook sometimes!
The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.
Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two trillion transistors per... →
We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so... →
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear... →
History is one of the only fields where contributions by amateurs are taken seriously, providing you follow the rules and document your sources. In... →
I have had a Twitter account since the very beginning but have never used it: I haven't tweeted anything, and I haven't followed anyone.
I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.
Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.