At the most abstract level, the relation between urbanism and microelectronics is scalar (fractal). The coming computers are closer to miniature citi… - Nick Land

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At the most abstract level, the relation between urbanism and microelectronics is scalar (fractal). The coming computers are closer to miniature cities than to artificial brains, dominated by traffic problems (congestion), migration / communications, zoning issues (mixed use), the engineering potential of new materials, questions of dimensionality (3D solutions to density constraints), entropy or heat / waste dissipation (recycling / reversible computation), and disease control (new viruses).

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Nick Land (born 17 January 1962) is a noted British philosopher, author, and accelerationist. FORCETOC

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