Monthly Archives: February 2024

How Weighted Voting Will Work in the 25th Century

Posted on February 28, 2024 by David Roman

In “Aurora Rising,” one of the novels of Alastair Reynolds’ masterful “Revelation Space” cycle, he describes the way “weighted voting” works in the Yellowstone solar system, inhabited in the 25th century by around 100 million humans, many of whom lived … Continue reading →

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Praise your Masters: A Theory of Creativity

Posted on February 14, 2024 by David Roman

Presented by Thomas Frank, Salon, 2013: In “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention” (1996), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi acknowledges that, far from being an act of individual inspiration, what we call creativity is simply an expression of professional consensus. … Continue reading →

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