• A follow up to the book review Traversal by Maria Popova… Polymaths, and the Transit of Venus while it’s still in head space. • Somewhere in a conference room with bad lighting and worse coffee, someone is making a licensing decision that will determine whether your grandchildren live in a democracy or a feudal server farm. • They don’t know that’s what they’re doing. • They think they’re talking about software. • When water hits 0°C, it doesn’t negotiate between liquid and solid. • The system crosses a threshold and reorganizes… every molecule, all at once, according to whatever rules govern the interactions between them.
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