OK, Negroponte

A friend of mine at a tech company says that their data centers are running at ~80% capacity; that’s apparently way too hot for comfort – SOP is ~50%. Their telco partners are running out of comm server capacity, and are even (!) borrowing hardware from each other. Clearly the limiting factor today is atoms, not bits.

Narrowing down narrative

I concluded my post ‘Shiller’s Narratives: AEA 2017’ by suggesting that many people use the term narrative too widely, and gave a list of concepts that Shiller and others sweep up under the term ‘narrative’.  I’ve found encouragement in Galen Strawson’s essay ‘On the use of the notion of narrative in ethics and psychology,’ in The Natural Method: Essays in Honor of Owen Flanagan, (MIT Press, 2020; link is to a slightly expanded version).