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This episode of The Big Story presents a reading of Joshua Quittner's 1994 WIRED article about the early Wild West of internet domain name registration. The piece examines a moment when corporate entities had no legal protections preventing individuals from registering valuable domain names—essentially allowing anyone…
Worth it if you're interested in internet history and want to understand how domain name regulation emerged from an earlier lawless period.
This episode from WIRED's The Big Story podcast features a reading and discussion of Bill Joy's seminal 2000 essay 'Why the Future Doesn't Need Us,' originally published in Wired magazine. The essay presents a provocative argument that three converging 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and…
Worth it if you're interested in the history of tech criticism and want to hear Joy's foundational argument on existential risk, but not if you're seeking current analysis or counterarguments.
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