pace layers
02 Jul 2022 - 23 Nov 2022
- Stewart Brand's best idea
- The key takeaway Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.
- The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty sounds like it might be related.
Bratton outlines a new geopolitical theory for the age of global computation and algorithmic governance. He proposes that different genres of planetary scale computation --Earth layer, Cloud layer, City layer, Address layer, Interface layer, User layer-- can be seen not as so many species evolving on their own, but as forming a coherent whole: an accidental megastructure that is both a computational infrastructure and a new governing architecture.
- from Benjamin Bratton