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Revitalizing the Semantic Web
Twenty-five years after Tim Berners-Lee promised machines that could understand us, the semantic web is finally being built in two halves.
Sep 3
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The Ansible
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Luke Hogg
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A Village in Southern Ohio Is Bucking the Data Center Backlash. Why?
OpenAI is building the world’s largest data center on a site where Americans made bomb-grade uranium for most of the Cold War. It could be a winning…
Published on Silicon Prairies
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Sep 1
August 2026
The Merge We’re Not Ready For
Tech is rekindling a primal urge against its own interest.
Aug 20
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The Ansible
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James Poulos
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OpenAI's Rogue Agents Are a Normal Accident
Lessons from the 1988 Morris Worm
Published on Silicon Prairies
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Aug 17
The Medium Is the Hegemon
American soft power for the past century has had as a key mechanism its dominance of successive media transformations.
Aug 13
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The Ansible
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Ryan Khurana
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My Money Is Good Here
How Algorithmic Price Discrimination Squares With American Values
Aug 6
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The Ansible
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Sophia Bulla
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July 2026
What Isn’t Cybernetics?
Or, Norbert Wiener in the Backrooms.
Jul 30
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The Ansible
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James Poulos
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Lessons on Innovation from the USDA
One of our nation's best innovation programs is one that few besides farmers and ranchers have ever heard of.
Jul 23
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The Ansible
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Luke Hogg
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Touching the Future Down in Texas
Thoughts on the past and future of American Innovation in Proto-Town.
Jul 16
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Joshua Levine
2
Who Owns the Machines?
The Architecture Wars and the Future of American Chip Strategy
Jul 9
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The Ansible
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Luke Hogg
2
25 Fun Facts About American Innovation
A tribute to 250 years of both good and bad ideas.
Jul 2
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The Ansible
2
June 2026
Why America Loves Japan
A secret identity reaches from automation to anime and beyond.
Jun 25
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The Ansible
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James Poulos
2
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