The Best of Ribbonfarm
8 most popular Ribbonfarm articles, as voted by our community.
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Ribbonfarm on Books
Storytelling — The Penumbra of Mortality
I’ve been reading Permutation City by Greg Egan, my first taste of his work. I picked it because it seemed like something of a contemporary chaser to J. G. Ballard’s work, whose complete short stor…
Ribbonfarm on Game Theory
The Leaning Tower of Morality
Don’t hate the player, hate the game. — Ice-T Game theory is asleep, cooperate for no reason. — Deity of Religion There’s an image that’s taken root in my mind recently that I can’t seem to shake. …
Ribbonfarm on Language
Life After Language
In October 2013, I wrote a post arguing that computing was disrupting language and that this was the Mother of All Disruptions. My specific argument was that human-to-human communication was an ove…
Ribbonfarm on Marketplaces
Markets Are Eating The World
For the last hundred years, individuals have worked for firms, and, by historical standards, large ones. That many of us live in suburbs and drive our cars into the city to go to work at a large of…
Ribbonfarm on War
Ark Head
This week is probably the closest we’ve ever gotten in my lifetime to the brink of nuclear-powered World War 3, yet people seem strangely indifferent to the developments. I share in this under…
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The Digital Maginot Line
There is a war happening. We are immersed in an evolving, ongoing conflict: an Information World War in which state actors, terrorists, and ideological extremists leverage the social infrastructure…
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