The Flesh Perfected Is the Flesh Possessed
The longest single rail line, connecting Lisbon to Laos, is the setting for a bio-thriller in Sachin Benny’s new world-building series
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The Fabric and the Brain
Articulating agent ecologies with high-personality planetary computation
The Faithful Channel
A translator maintaining a shadow bridge between superpowers discovers something she cannot unsee.
A Government Guide to Open Protocols
Public sector teams must go beyond the in-house or off-the-shelf dichotomy to take advantage of open protocols, which offer a unique way to manage both software costs and geopolitical exposure
Strangeness, Legibility, Hardness
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