medium.com
A most peaceful revolution
20+ min · · Bitcoin is a slow-burning but potent nonviolent rebellion. · Shared by 156, including Jameson Lopp, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Thomas Power, Oleg Baskov, Ryan Selkis 🪳, notsofast, Matthias Lampe, Peter McCormack🏴☠️, 瑞拿頭, Jon Matonis
TNW
This AI-powered text generator is the scariest thing I’ve ever seen — and you can try it
1 min · · OpenAI, a nonprofit focused on creating human-level artificial intelligence, just released an update to its GPT-2 text generator. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that, after trying it, I’m… · Shared by 119, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, René Clausen Nielsen, Howard Getson, haldimann, sascha aßbach, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ines Bieler, 瑞拿頭, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, Niklaus Gerber, Josep M. Ganyet, Tamara McCleary
Fast Company
How we’ll travel in 2050
4 min · · Long live the zeppelin! · Shared by 114, including Tauno, Matthias Lampe, Helga And Heini On Tour, Liliane Ferrari ™, 瑞拿頭, Toni Juan, Thomas Power, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Romain Lalanne
Gizmodo
‘Robots’ Are Not 'Coming for Your Job'—Management Is
6 min · · Listen: ‘Robots’ are not coming for your jobs. I hope we can be very clear here—at this particular point in time, ‘robots’ are not sentient agents capable of seeking out and applying for your job and… · Shared by 104, including Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Amber Mac, Rick Powell, Krishna, Mathew Ingram, 瑞拿頭, Mark Kaigwa, Klaus Eck
Aeon+Psyche
How ergodicity reimagines economics for the benefit of us all
5 min · · A radical concept called ergodicity at the heart of economics could change our approach to risk for the benefit of all · Shared by 83, including 瑞拿頭, Wanderer Forever, Christopher Allen, Taylor Pearson, Ryan Singer
Gizmodo
What Technology Is Most Likely to Become Obsolete During Your Lifetime?
9 min · · Certain Boomer basements are little shrines to obsolescence, untidy stockrooms of the one-time cutting-edge: VCRs, corded telephones, immense beige PC monitors, etc. Way fewer Millennials will have… · Shared by 81, including Michael Grupe, Howard Getson, Yvette Dubel, Tac Anderson, Jonathan Kogan, 瑞拿頭
CNN
The robots are coming for your job, too
8 min · · The robots. They're coming for your jobs. But what is very much up for debate in the imaginations of economists and Hollywood producers is whether the future will look like "The Terminator" or "The… · Shared by 75, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Jonathan Kogan, 瑞拿頭, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Brian Solis, Martin Ford
TED Talks
Jaron Lanier: How we need to remake the internet
· In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where humanity could share its knowledge -- but even then, this vision was haunted by the… · Shared by 73, including Chris Messina, Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power, programarfacil.com, Bertrand Maltaverne, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Luis Roig | @darum@indieweb.social, Brad Brooks, 瑞拿頭, Thomas Pleil
Futurism
UN warning: food is going to get really, really expensive
1 min · · But there are ways to avoid this future food crisis. · Shared by 69, including Thomas Power, Florian Hanke 🍎, Damir Kusar, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 瑞拿頭, Matthias Lampe, Katja Evertz, Claudia Sommer
nature
Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments
3 min · · The research could eventually lead to new sources of organs for transplant, but ethical and technical hurdles need to be overcome. · Shared by 66, including Azeem Azhar, John Nosta, Thomas Power, 瑞拿頭, Charles Baldwin, John Hagel, Yvette Dubel
The New York Times
A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises, Study Says
4 min · · Around the world, 17 countries are currently facing extremely high water stress. Climate change is making the problem worse. · Shared by 62, including Mike Butcher, NYTimes Communications, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, 瑞拿頭, publici, scott belsky, Katja Evertz, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl
Stripe
Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment
4 min · · Funding negative emissions technology through Stripe's environmental program. · Shared by 57, including Max Roser, Elad Gil, Sachin Rekhi, M.G. Siegler, Yvette Dubel, Thomas Power, Joelle Emerson, Megan Quinn, Paul Graham, Patrick Collison, Tom Connor, 瑞拿頭, adam ludwin
WIRED
We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices
4 min · · It's time to assert our sovereignty over our own stuff. · Shared by 57, including Mark Kaigwa, 瑞拿頭, Liv 😷, Backchannel, zeynep tufekci, Gérard Godin, luis antónio santos
The Atlantic
The Power of Buying Less by Buying Better
20+ min · · A number of new online fashion retailers are capitalizing on consumers’ desires to purchase clothing that lasts. · Shared by 55, including 瑞拿頭, Alexandra Wong
The Atlantic
Soon There Will Be Unlimited Hair
2 min · · New uses of stem cells and 3-D printing could make baldness obsolete (for the wealthy). · Shared by 51, including Florian Hanke 🍎, 瑞拿頭, ❤️ Umair, Mike Plotnick
The Guardian
'The next era of human progress': what lies behind the global new cities epidemic?
10 min · · The urge to build cities from scratch is not new – but this time they are being conceived by private multinational corporations as gilt-edged tax-exempt gated communities · Shared by 45, including Olly Wainwright, Jochen Burkhard, Katja Evertz, 瑞拿頭, Moritz A. Mihatsch, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯