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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Oct 2016
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      17/ "Stealing" cable or electricity required some sophistication, "stealing" wifi is both easier and more valuable.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Oct 2016
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      18/ Last block also is economy in its own right: from unlocking smart-contract rental cars to power outlets in cafes that charge for charge

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Oct 2016
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      19/ A lot is low-value/high volume so online micropayments arguments ("just make it free"/"not worth financializing") apply. But not all.

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      10/ I'm going to shrug off pennies worth of electric power or wifi used for free as community goodwill. Stolen package, not so much.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Oct 2016
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      21/ F. Pohl said "job of the sci-fi writer is to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam." Traffic jam is ALWAYS at leaves of tree

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Oct 2016
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      22/ Literal traffic jams happen near cities. As s/w eats a network-provisioned service, traffic jam moves further down into capillaries.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Oct 2016
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      23/ *something something information in black hole is at surface, holographic principle*

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      24/ I once pitched feature on last-mile to a mag; editor rejected it as too esoteric :D But if you get tech, it's where ALL action is

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Oct 2016
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      25/ With VR, NFC, payments... It's not even the last block or last yard by your doorstep, it's the last inch from your face wherever you are

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Oct 2016
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      26/ General topological theory why this happens. A more informationally powerful tech induces a higher resolution network structure

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      27/ Resolution "delta" (tens of miles for trains/planes, miles for cars, blocks for foot/electricity, inches for wireless) extends network

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Oct 2016
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          28/ Network core can be defined as the "low res" backbonet where economics allow aggregation leverage, and low transaction costs for $ flow

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          29/ Every tech stops being organized by econ, starts being organized by social norms at its transaction resolution limit, set by tx costs

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