The year is 2149 and people mostly live their lives “on rails.” That’s what they call it, “on rails,” which […]
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There is an unavoidable tension between the aims of decentralization and onboarding everyday users.
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This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age by Thomas S. Mullaney, published […]