Editor’s note: I’ve been looking at Marginal Revolution more or less daily for at least fifteen years.
What the Hell is Going On? - David Perell
David shares how the new age of information abundance is transforming commerce, education, and politics. Read here.
Erlend Heggen | The Paper Pilot
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What can news publishers learn from creators? Interview with Simon Owens
Don't leave money on the table and think outside the box about business models
Everything is In-Between — Douglas Rushkoff
I’ve begun this piece maybe twenty times in the past three weeks. By the time I’ve finished the first paragraph, some new thing happens that obsolesces whatever event I’m writing about. And I’m not even writing about the news, so much as using one shared moment as a “peg” for a piece about some larger phenomenon or strategy.
What corporate thrillers tell us about the '90s economy
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Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future (Paperback)
Jer Thorp’s analysis of the word “data” in 10,325 New York Times stories written between 1984 and 2018 shows a distinct trend: among the words most closely associated with “data,” we find not only its classic companions “information” and “digital,” but also a variety of new neighbors—from “scandal” and “misinformation” to “ethics,” “friends,” and “play.”To live in data in the twenty-first century
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Freeform | The Paper Pilot
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Neo-Documentation and the End of Information
Ronald Day’s Neo-Documentation and the End of Information critiques the modern conception of information as representational “content.” The...
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No There There by Chris Rhomberg - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
And Then the Networks Started Talking | Jason G. Butterfield | Offprint
Gander, Eurosky, and interoperability is no longer theoretical
Advent Incremental | The Paper Pilot
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Spime Script?
The rants and raves of Simon Wardley on Evolution, Technology, Economics and Business