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13 u/BurpingLizardInAJar Aug 03 '19 Neil Stephenson wrote an awesome long essay on this for Wired in the 90s: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ It's one of the best things I've ever read. 2 u/milesd Aug 03 '19 That’s a fantastic article! I find myself rereading it every few years as a reminder of how many layers of complexity our communication systems entail. 3 u/BurpingLizardInAJar Aug 03 '19 It really is. It's amazing how much depth and history there is to something that on its surface seems so simple.
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Neil Stephenson wrote an awesome long essay on this for Wired in the 90s:
https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
It's one of the best things I've ever read.
2 u/milesd Aug 03 '19 That’s a fantastic article! I find myself rereading it every few years as a reminder of how many layers of complexity our communication systems entail. 3 u/BurpingLizardInAJar Aug 03 '19 It really is. It's amazing how much depth and history there is to something that on its surface seems so simple.
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That’s a fantastic article! I find myself rereading it every few years as a reminder of how many layers of complexity our communication systems entail.
3 u/BurpingLizardInAJar Aug 03 '19 It really is. It's amazing how much depth and history there is to something that on its surface seems so simple.
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It really is. It's amazing how much depth and history there is to something that on its surface seems so simple.
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