Two up
Charles Stross is one of the authors whose works I’ve found very pleasant recently, and his blog provides good, thoughtful reading occasionally as well.
Two recent entries have been exceptionally good, and come heavily recommended to all.
The one on recent research on Fermi paradox appeals to my inner cosmologist. If universe is indeed infinite, shouldn’t there be an infinite amount of advanced civilizations. Not really, as Drake equation famously uses multipliers to whittle down the number.
The other, on the diminishing bang/buck ratio of web pages just explains how awkward things have recently evolved. To ship out a six kilobyte article, the web page is bloated to 950 kilobytes (including an amazing twenty-two separate javascript files). OK, the disease is obviously not ubiquitous, but the case study of Salon probably is a good approximation of the common norm.
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