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Provenance: Authorship, Ownership, & Custody

We live in an era obsessed with verification. We want to know where things came from, who made them, and who has them right now. The very nature of what is true is under scrutiny. In search of perfectly reliable information, we have derived the tools of digital integrity - mechanisms of Provenance and Authorship.

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Cybernetics: From the Great Chain to the Sociopticon

The origins of cybernetics - the formal theory of control, from its seeds in the ancient Greek recursive mind, through the Great Chain of the Middle Ages, the wartime anxieties of the 1940s, and the Narcissus Narcosis of the Electronic Age. What follows is an attempt to understand the Permanent Present, a system of governance 2,500 years in the making.

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