Dollars and Thinking

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A Billion Dollars

Kevin Kelly | Technium | 24th August 2026

What would you do with a billion dollars? Maybe buy a house. Travel. Support a friend. But after all that, you still have a billion dollars and you still need to do something with your time. Some would start their own business, or open a bakery. Work with the poor. Go pro with their band. Become a YouTube creator. None of these things requires a billion dollars. “Most people’s dreams are not gated by money” (1,700 words)

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Vintage Artificial Intelligence

Jason Scott | Internet Archive Blogs | 16th August 2026

An archive of miscellaneous projects that explored the question of thinking machines and synthetic life before generative AI, dating from the 1970s through the 1990s. From our current vantage point, “it’s easy to dismiss these older programs as toys or forgettable jaunts, but they carried with them the weight of a machine imbued with at least a fuzzy sense of character and thought” (2,100 words)

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