Digital Platonism

Modern politics is a futile war against entropy.

Michael Kumpmann explores entropy, computation, and the modern state as a Maxwellian demon.

Konrad Zuse was not merely an engineer who built one of the earliest computers capable of universal computation, thereby inventing a machine that can theoretically solve any solvable mathematical problem. In his 1969 book Der Rechnende Raum (The Calculating Space)…