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Link The Arrow of Time (Debategraph)
The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time…

May 11 2012, 8:12am | Comments
Twitter Links “The Shannon and Weaver Model”
The genius of Shanon’s original paper from 1948 and its subsequent popularization by Weaver lies in many things, among them, their having formulated a…

February 20 2012, 7:51am | Comments
Twitter Links #Digital Decay, 2001: by @bruces "Entropy requires no maintenance. #Entropy has its own poetry." http://t.co/A87gLDL #x
Digital Decay, 2001: by @bruces "Entropy requires no maintenance. #Entropy has its own poetry." http://t.co/A87gLDL #x

August 10 2011, 9:59am | Comments
Twitter Links Digital Decay (2001): by Bruce Sterling
"Entropy requires no maintenance. Entropy has its own poetry."

August 10 2011, 9:59am | Comments
Link Michel Serres's Milieux
There is a Yiddish expression used in London which always gives me a little jolt of pleasure whenever I hear it. ‘In mitten drinnen’ corresponds to German ‘In mitten darin’,…

August 2 2011, 4:49am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Link Genetic Future: How much data is a human…
The question is pretty simple: in the not-too-distant future you and I will have had our entire genomes sequenced (except perhaps those of you in California) - so how much…

June 29 2010, 8:33am | Comments
Link Uniformity and Variability: An Essay in the Philosophy…
If the planet needs us to speed up information, and slow down matter, what does this mean for the complex relationship between information and nature? There is a growing awareness…

May 3 2010, 9:35am | Comments

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