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Meng Weng Wong

Meng Weng Wong

The First Church of Chatbot: or, HOWTO Pwn a Democracy using Common Ingredients Easily Found in…

(a design fiction, originally written April 2017, published May 2018)

May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018

Meng Weng Wong

Zen and the Art of Internet Infrastructure

If Buddha built the Internet, what would the OSI model look like?

May 13, 2017

May 13, 2017

Meng Weng Wong

Zero-Sum/Fantasy/Politics versus Abundance/SF/Tech

Fantasy spans many subgenres, but it is anchored in medievalism: the settings of epics like Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones are…

Jan 17, 2017

Jan 17, 2017

Meng Weng Wong

On the Citational Complexity of Disciplines

When computer scientists want to assess the efficiency of algorithms, they employ the notions of time and space complexity. These measures…

Jan 4, 2017

Jan 4, 2017

Meng Weng Wong

Everything Old is New Again

Technologists sometimes suffer ahistoricism: because so much in the world of technology is new, when confronted with current affairs…

Nov 29, 2016

Nov 29, 2016

Meng Weng Wong

Pitching A Fit, or #64SF

What do Lean Startups have in common with Chinese characters? By the end of this article, you’ll have learned a new visual vocabulary…

Jul 19, 2016

Pitching A Fit, or #64SF

Jul 19, 2016

Meng Weng Wong

The Potlatch as Probiotic Petri Dish

In human prehistory, were tribal feasts a mechanism for spreading advantageous gut bacteria?

Jul 13, 2016

Jul 13, 2016

Meng Weng Wong

Prolog is like FTL fuel for your spaceship.

It’s amazing, but has one big gotcha.

Dec 22, 2015

Dec 22, 2015

Meng Weng Wong

Other Blockchain-based Social Graphs

Blockchains could enable the future of democracy through transitive delegation micro-voting.

Sep 16, 2015

Sep 16, 2015

Meng Weng Wong

So you got rejected for Singapore PR; now what?

To avoid disappointment when applying for Singapore permanent residency, you need to go in with the right expectations.

Jul 20, 2015

Jul 20, 2015

Meng Weng Wong

Meng Weng Wong

Berkman Fellow 2016. Stanford CodeX Fellow 2017. Leading Legalese.com. Previously jfdi.asia, pobox.com, SPF, hackerspace.sg. Made in Singapore.

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