We never stop hearing about how the internet’s in the cloud. But really, it’s in the ocean. About 300 undersea fiber optic cables are responsible for 99% of international data traffic. It’s basically the same way we connect to each other in a single country, except under water instead of underground. They transmit PewDiePie from …
Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And this strawberry weights about 50 grams, which according to Russell Seitz also happens to be the weight of the entire Internet. What does that mean? I mean, the Internet is a gigantic place and how do you measure information? Well, let’s start a little bit smaller with a Kindle. Right …
Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast I’ve always written primarily about architecture, about buildings, and writing about architecture is based on certain assumptions. An architect designs a building, and it becomes a place, or many architects design many buildings, and it becomes a city, and regardless of this complicated mix of forces of politics and …
Imagine for a second that everyone had a magical cube in their pockets. With the right permutation, you could materialize all kinds of food or drink. At first there was only one cube in existence and nobody knew what it did until after about a year of fiddling with the thing, someone found the permutation …
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I’m in a back road in rural Zambia. As you can see, there’s basically nothing around here. Even so my phone has pretty good internet service here. Today, even the most remote parts of Zambia have gone digital. To see that firsthand, we traveled a thousand kilometers from the capital, Lusaka. In a car, on …
Now more than ever we are exposed to a plethora of ideas, methods, and suggestions about life The Internet has made it so we can consume and/or share a seemingly unending amount of content on the topic of living most effectively. However, simultaneously, this access to information has also allowed the consumer to realize just …
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Shh, I’m drafting an email about the gif vs jif debate. Sent, Our brains are individuals. Little gelatinous masses… But Silicon Valley superstars want to create something from science fiction that would change all that — a new tech called neural lace. “Neural lace” was coined by Iain Banks in a long running set of …