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A brilliant lecture from Douglas Adams.

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A fantastic piece from Kevin Kelly on how our lives drift and flux from engineering decisions:

Systems are not neutral. They have natural biases. We tame the cascading choices we gain from accelerating technology by introducing small nudges — by deliberating embedding our own biases (also called a default) into the system here and there. We wield biases within inevitable technologies to aim them towards our common goals — increasing diversity, complexity, specialization, sentience, and beauty.

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