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
The New York Times
A Boom Time for the Bunker Business and Doomsday Capitalists
7 min · · Personalized disaster prep has grown into a multimillion-dollar business, fueled by a seemingly endless stream of new and revamped threats. · Shared by 29, including Gerd Leonhard, 瑞拿頭, Liv 😷, Thomas Power
BBC News (World)
What is the Worklife 101?
2 min · · A global look at the people, ideas and things who are dramatically changing how we work today. · Shared by 1, including 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
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
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
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
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
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 ✈️
linkedin.com
Paradigm Shifts
· One of my investment principles is: Identify the paradigm you’re in, examine if and how it is unsustainable, and visualize how the paradigm shift will transpire when that which is unsustainable stops. Over my roughly 50 years of being a global macro investor, I have observed there to be relatively l · Shared by 94, including 瑞拿頭, eej, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Tom Connor, Jonathan Kogan, Taylor Pearson, Libertas, Ha Duong, Ray Dalio
The New Yorker
Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?
20+ min · · For a century, we’ve loved our cars. They haven’t loved us back. · Shared by 87, including 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Christopher Lauer™, Dan Hill, 瑞拿頭, Tom Connor, Brent Toderian, Jonathan Kogan, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Brooks Rainwater, kate wagner (rilke era)
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
FOCUS online
Diese 4 Trends in China muss die Welt 2019 im Blick haben
7 min · · Was sind die digitalen Trends aus China, die auch über das Land hinaus bedeutend sind? Antworten darauf finden sich im China Internet Report 2019, den ChinaBriefs-Kolumnist Björn Ognibeni analysiert… · Shared by 10, including 瑞拿頭, Björn Ognibeni, Klaus Eck
rootsofprogress.org
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
12+ min · · The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Yet it was a simple mechanical invention. It would seem to require no brilliant inventive insight, and certainly no scientific… · Shared by 539, including Gerrit Eicker, Clemens, Josep M. Ganyet, Howard Getson, Mathew Ingram, Paolo Sinelli, andrew chen, Mattia Fregola 🤔, Kunal Bhatia, 瑞拿頭, rudolph regter, Tauno, Tom Connor, Paul Kedrosky, Jelan Ong, Vikram Dutt
Inverse
Neuralink: Elon Musk’s Elusive Brain-Computer Firm Just Made a Big Reveal
3 min · · The secretive firm is almost ready for launch. · Shared by 8, including 瑞拿頭
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
What Orwell’s ‘1984’ tells us about today’s world, 70 years after it was published
5 min · · In the year 1984, there was self-congratulatory coverage that the dystopia of the novel had not been realized. However, an expert argues that the technologies described in the novel are here and… · Shared by 1, including 瑞拿頭