A source can carry several themes. These tags are this wiki's own reading, not claims the sources make. Subjects say what a source is about. Themes say which idea it shares with sources elsewhere.
Emergence
What is written down produces more than it states.
- Rules that generate
Small rule systems that produce far more than they state. 14 sources from 8 subjects.
- Art through code
Music, images and motion made by writing programs. 25 sources from 8 subjects.
- Invented worlds
Building a place that does not exist, and getting people into it. 16 sources from 7 subjects.
Fixities
Staying accurate, and surviving over time.
- Checking the work
How anyone comes to know that a thing is right. 26 sources from 8 subjects.
- Saying it exactly
Notations, languages and specs, and the limits of precision. 19 sources from 12 subjects.
- How things break
Bugs, corruption and decay, examined up close. 11 sources from 7 subjects.
- What lasts
Memory, records and loss, in agents, cells, texts and places. 21 sources from 9 subjects.
Automation
What machines do with what we write.
- Handing over control
What to delegate to an agent, and how to bound it. 33 sources from 6 subjects.
- Skill under automation
What happens to expertise when machines do the work. 13 sources from 3 subjects.
- Feedback loops
Systems whose output changes what they do next. 8 sources from 4 subjects.
- Close to the machine
Getting results by knowing what the hardware really does. 21 sources from 4 subjects.
The Tacit
What people know that resists being written down.
- Getting good
Learning hard things, and explaining them so others can. 35 sources from 13 subjects.
- Taste and judgment
What good means, and how a person learns to see it. 13 sources from 11 subjects.
- What the senses do
Where physics stops and perception starts. 12 sources from 5 subjects.
- Belief at work
What ideas do for people, whether or not they are true. 11 sources from 3 subjects.
Society
Who gets to write it down, who it reaches, and who counts.
- Small means
What one person or a tiny budget can do. 16 sources from 8 subjects.
- Given away
Free tools, open data and teaching offered to anyone. 20 sources from 14 subjects.
- Who holds the power
Platforms, institutions and who gains from a new tool. 11 sources from 6 subjects.
- How forms evolve
Where a genre, a practice or a language came from. 14 sources from 9 subjects.
- What counts as a mind
When a mechanism starts to seem like someone. 6 sources from 6 subjects.