Neal Stephenson's Neo-Victorians Idea Was Utterly Dead Wrong
...because tribes are re-emerging. We don't call it tribes with distributed elders; we call it "Internet Famous." But that's because most of us don't know what it is yet.
Are you a hacker who likes to make music? You know how you feel precise control when you write code you understand, but you have to filter your understanding of your music through oversimplified GUIs which sometimes have terrible UX? I made a series of videos which teaches you how to write music sequencing software in Node.js and CoffeeScript. When I do it, I experience a clarity which makes it easy for me to make more exciting sounds. You may have the same experience. Upcoming episodes will also teach you how to use simple probabilistic artificial intelligence to write code which writes its own music (which I've already done in Ruby).