VICE
Jeff Bezos Is a Post-Earth Capitalist
5 min · · Bezos admits that the limitless growth that made him the world's richest man is incompatible with a habitable Earth. · Shared by 40, including Dominik Grolimund, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Bernhard Huessy, 瑞拿頭, Moritz A. Mihatsch
VANITY FAIR
Why Hollywood as We Know It Is Already Over
14+ min · · From A.I. Aaron Sorkin to C.G.I. actors to algorithmic editing, Nick Bilton investigates what lies ahead. · Shared by 39, including Hugo Amsellem, 瑞拿頭
WIRED
This Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
3 min · · Brave says it can show users ads while protecting their privacy; eventually, it hopes to also pay publishers. · Shared by 38, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Backchannel, Ouriel @Zengo, Jeff Atwood, 瑞拿頭
BBC News (World)
The 101 people, ideas and things changing how we work today
11+ min · · The world of work is in transition. Are you ready? · Shared by 36, including Peter van Sabben.eth, 瑞拿頭, Nige Roberts-Willson, Bill Johnston, Mark Hasebroock
MIT Technology Review
Scientists are making human-monkey hybrids in China
2 min · · Scientists may have taken a big—and controversial—leap by mixing human cells into monkey embryos. · Shared by 32, including Tomio Geron, 瑞拿頭, Howard Getson, Vikram Dutt
Quartz
Central banks are contemplating a world without cash
4 min · · More than a dozen central banks are considering how and whether to create a digital form of cash. · Shared by 31, including Marc R Gagné MAPP, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, 瑞拿頭, Howard Getson
TechCrunch
Last-mile training and the future of work in an expanding gig economy
3 min · · Ryan Craig Contributor Ryan Craig is managing director of University Ventures. More posts by this contributor Existential education error: Failing to train students on software Facebook is going back… · Shared by 31, including 瑞拿頭
The Correspondent
The solution to just about everything: Working less
14+ min · · For more than 100 years, our workweek kept getting shorter. But since the 1980s, we’ve started working more and more. Why, exactly, is anybody’s guess, because a shorter workweek would solve nearly… · Shared by 31, including Dominik Grolimund, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, 瑞拿頭, Florian Hanke 🍎, Tom Connor
Quanta Magazine
Do Brains Operate at a Tipping Point? New Clues and Complications
5 min · · New experimental results simultaneously advance and challenge the theory that the brain’s network of neurons balances on the knife-edge between two phases. · Shared by 29, including Jane, 瑞拿頭, Ward Plunet
The Economist
The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh
10 min · · Pain will be felt across the region · Shared by 27, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gerd Leonhard, 瑞拿頭
ZEIT ONLINE
Klimapolitik: Wir können so nicht weiterleben
5 min · · Die Kosten der heutigen Wirtschaftsweise dürfen nicht länger auf kommende Generationen abgewälzt werden. Plädoyer für eine neue Klimapolitik · Shared by 27, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Claudia Sommer, 瑞拿頭, Klaus Eck, Katja Evertz, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The StartUp
9 predictions for 2020–2029
20+ min · · The world as we know it is about to change fast. · Shared by 26, including Andreas Staub, 瑞拿頭, KOstas
Gizmodo
Humans Will Never Colonize Mars
14+ min · · The suggestion that humans will soon set up bustling, long-lasting colonies on Mars is something many of us take for granted. What this lofty vision fails to appreciate, however, are the monumental—if… · Shared by 25, including Marsha Collier, 瑞拿頭
OneZero
The Rebellion Against China’s 996 Culture
8 min · · Workers will no longer tolerate the punishing schedules of the technology giants · Shared by 25, including Arin Basu, Donneker, 瑞拿頭, Alexandra Wong, Thomas Power
The Guardian
'We're living in emergency times': nature writer Barry Lopez's dire warning
6 min · · We must learn from the wisdom of traditional societies, says the writer whose new book Horizon describes his life through six geographical regions · Shared by 23, including Liv 😷, 瑞拿頭
Futurism
Saudi prince plans city with human gene editing, artificial rain
2 min · · The city of the future might produce the humans of it, too. · Shared by 20, including 瑞拿頭, Brett King #TheFuturists #OptimalHumanity ✈️