As usual, an incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

A very broad sweep of topics in this episode of Delicacies. A bit more contrarian than usual. Loads of video material.

The thought of this week: “And then there was nothing, absolutely nothing, only stillness and silence. But that is quite a lot” @petervan

• Welcome to Witness – an open-source fictional world.
• Rem Koolhaas’ kick-off event on this year’s virtual DLD. Why the countryside is the future, not cities.

• There is no Planet-B. Why go to Mars if we can’t solve problems at home?
• The more we can google, the less we know
• About icons, indices, and symbols leading to symbolic emergence in Artificial Intelligence and DeepMind

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