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This episode from Security, Spoken presents a reading of Joshua Quittner's 1994 article 'Billions Registered,' originally published in Wired. The piece examines the early Wild West era of domain name registration, when there were essentially no rules preventing individuals or organizations from claiming valuable…
Worth it if you're interested in internet history and how early regulatory gaps shaped domain ownership battles, or enjoy Wired's archival storytelling.
This episode is a reading of Bill Joy's seminal 2000 essay 'Why the Future Doesn't Need Us,' originally published in Wired magazine. The piece presents a provocative thesis: that the most powerful emerging technologies of the 21st century—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology—pose an existential threat to…
Worth it if you're interested in the intellectual history of AI existential risk or prefer audio consumption of canonical tech writing, but less so if you want current analysis of how these predictions have aged.