“Every day that we read the news we have the possibility of being confronted with a fact about our world that is wildly different from what we thought we knew.” FactsKnowledge Book:The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date Source: The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
“While we think of the boundary between what is legal and what is not as a clear dividing line, it is far from being so. Rather, the boundary becomes further and further indented and folded over time, yielding a jagged and complicated border, rather than a clear straight line. In the end, the law turns out to look like a fractal: no matter how much you zoom in on such a shape, there is always more unevenness, more detail to observe. Any general rule must end up dealing with exceptions, which in turn split into further exceptions and rules, yielding an increasingly complicated, branching structure.” LawPatternsFractalsExceptionsExceptions To The Rule Book:Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension Source: Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension