In the progression from magazines to blogs to Twitter feeds, the tea leaves are clear. I think we need a new social network, on which updates will take the form of nothing more than a single “0” or “1”.
I’d imagine such a service would find much use for people who idly wonder “I wonder if so-and-so has dropped off the face of the Earth yet.” 0 for no, 1 for yes.
Twitterers (“Twits”) have already tried, and rejected that idea, in favor of an even more brief communication protocol developed by the government during the last administration: “Unary”, consisting solely of zeros.
john
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those who do not.
Gavin Flower
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luis sancho
lol rephrase, there are 2 species in the planet, machines who understand numbers and humans who used to understand wor(l)ds… and now understand nothing but worship machines who understand numbers… those are called… scientists
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About Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. His most recent book is The Particle at the End of the Universe, about the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson.
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