As you probably read last week, Elon Musk (founder and CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX) is sure that we’re living in a computer-generated simulation. Over at The New Yorker, Joshua Rothman takes a hard look and tries to determine the actual odds of humans inhabiting a simulated world.
It’s All a Game
Maya Angelou’s Forever
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Maya Angelou now has her own Forever stamp.
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Vinod Busjeet on the Importance of Whimsy
Vinod Busjeet discusses his book, Silent Winds, Dry Seas, an autobiographical novel that balances brutal conflicts with moments of whimsy.
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Religion by any other name. Musk and the others are fundamental techno-extremists. What did DeLillo say in Mao II? Or was it White Noise? What happens when the old god dies? Where does all that faith go? Apparently it goes into your iPhone. Nothing new, same old, same old, the king is dead, meet the new boss…