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The New York Review of Ideas
In the book Welcome to the Urban Revolution:How Cities are Changing the World, Brugmann proposes a new way of thinking about city building. Brugmann brings to his writing a steet level understanding of urban processes which he explains in terms of city’s density, scale and ability to promote association and extension. Provacative, lucid, and fascinating. An interesting look into the past and future of the internet. Zittrain is an author that has put a lot of data and thought into his argument that the internet is doomed to fail if we all keep buying Xbox’s and Iphones.When we read Y Combinator applications there are always ideas we're hoping to see. In the past we've never said publicly what they are. If we say we're looking for x, we'll get applications proposing x, certainly. But then it actually becomes harder to judge them: is this group proposing x because they were already thinking about it, or because they know that's what we want to hear? We don't like to sit on these ideas, though, because we really want people to work on them. So we're trying something new: we're going to list some of the ideas we've been waiting to see, but only describe them in general terms.
