The Future of Tech
What will tomorrow look like? (And what can we learn from the past of digital technologies?)
Collection by Katja Evertz
thehistoryoftheweb.com
The Web's Timeline
5 min read · From 2019 · Over the last 25 years, the web has grown from a simple idea to the most important technological breakthrough of our time.
Reader View · Shared by 14, including Ines Bieler, Katja Evertz, William (Bill) Kennedy
World Economic Forum
Why the arts and humanities are key to the future of tech
4 min read · 2021-11-27 · Two science and technology institutions top the 2022 rankings for arts and humanities. They know that the 4th industrial revolution needs critical thinkers.
Reader View · Shared by 213, including Katja Evertz, Stéphanie Walter, Thomas Pleil
Popular Science
The 100 greatest innovations of 2021
2021-11-30 · Popular Science's 34th annual Best of What's of New awards include life-saving vaccines—and 99 other technologies shaping our future.
Reader View · Shared by 433, including Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Katja Evertz, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Johannes Dornisch, Howard Getson
stanforddaily.com
Stanford launches first class taught completely in virtual reality
2 min read · 2021-12-02 · Communications professor Jeremy Bailenson and first-year communications Ph.D. student Cyan DeVeaux have reimagined what education can look like using virtual reality.
Reader View · Shared by 62, including Katja Evertz, Matt Navarra, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Robert Scoble
NPR
People are talking about Web3. Is it the Internet of the future or just a buzzword?
7 min read · 2021-11-21 · In the Web3 vision of the internet's future, tech giants like Facebook and Google aren't as critical. The internet instead is a peer-to-peer experience built on what's known as the blockchain.
Reader View · Shared by 300, including Katja Evertz, Marsha Collier, Nicolas Granatino 🌻, Tom Muller, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Neil Hart 💙, Ines Bieler
CBC News
A WW II bunker under London's streets is now a vegetable farm
2021-11-11 · Thirty-three metres below Clapham High Street in southwest London sits the world's first subterranean farm, called Growing Underground.
Shared by 6, including Katja Evertz
Axios
Exclusive: New bipartisan bill takes aim at algorithms
2 min read · 2021-11-09 · The bill requires tech platforms to offer users an option to view content unsorted by algorithms.
Reader View · Shared by 64, including Fabio Chiusi, Mathew Ingram, BenYT, tante, Dr. Marie Haynes🐧, 🇺🇦 Alex Iskold | 1kproject.org, Thomas “🐈🔭🕹” Fuchs, anildash, Kyle Chayka, Tom Pick | #B2Bmarketing guy, Corvida 🏳️🌈, Katja Evertz
a16z
An Agenda for the Future of the Internet
2 min read · 2021-10-13 · Today, we’re excited to announce the release of How to Win the Future, a policy agenda for the third generation of the internet. It will be a living document housed in our new web3 policy hub…
Reader View · Shared by 234, including Jonathan Kogan, Gabriele, Katja Evertz, Ryan Selkis 📖 🖊🔑, cdixon.eth, Brian Roemmele
The Atlantic
The Internet's Original Sin
20+ min read · From 2017 · It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web.
Reader View · Shared by 141, including Katja Evertz, Anita Zielina, Vinny Lingham, Vikram Dutt, Mark Kaigwa, Beni Buess, Amicitia, Philippe Gauvin, Nir Eyal, Courtney Bolton ★, John Battelle, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Jens-Christian Fischer, Severin Hacker, christina r wodtke: the R is for radical focus, Simon Wüthrich, Luiz Borba
The Atlantic
Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago
9 min read · 2021-10-29 · It was terrible then, and it’s terrible now.
Reader View · Shared by 206, including Kyle Chayka, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Sonja Peteranderl, Max Levchin, Kara Swisher, Amy Webb, Tactical Tech, John Battelle, Tony Parisi.eth 🇺🇦🌻 #SlavaUkraini, Stéphanie Walter, Eli Pariser 🏞📲, Marsha Collier, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Robert Scoble, Mathew Ingram, Chris Heilmann, Wilko S. Wolters 🇩🇪🇪🇺 See you at #HM22 ⚙️, Jeff Atwood, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Eszter Hargittai 😷💉🌻
Vox
Why everybody’s hiring but nobody’s getting hired
9 min read · 2021-09-20 · Everyone is hiring. So why is finding a job still impossible?
Reader View · Shared by 333, including W. Blake Gray, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Nils Hitze, Katja Evertz, Marsha Collier, Brian Roemmele, Jennifer Ouellette, Anne Helen Petersen, Howard Getson, Kainaz Amaria, Aline Lerner
Live Science
An 'Internet apocalypse' could ride to Earth with the next solar storm, new research warns
3 min read · 2021-09-06 · The underwater cables that connect nations could go offline for months, the study warns.
Reader View · Shared by 95, including Bob Gourley, Katja Evertz, LARRY ELKAN
The Verge
Ikea’s $40 pad adds built-in wireless charging to almost any table
3 min read · 2021-09-19 · The Sjömärke puts a Wireless Qi charging hotspot underneath the surface of your wood or plastic furniture
Reader View · Shared by 17, including Real Marsha Wright®, Katja Evertz
frame.work
Introducing the Framework Laptop
1 min read · 2021-02-25 · Framework Laptop will be shipping summer 2021. Sign up to hear more and get notified when orders open.
Shared by 61, including Ernie Smith, EMERCE, Ziad Shihab, Katja Evertz, PotHix, Cory Doctorow, Luca Like, William (Bill) Kennedy, Noah Veltman, Mirko Lorenz, Stammy
Mozilla
Why are hyperlinks blue?
9 min read · 2021-08-26 · The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ev
Reader View · Shared by 562, including Ernie Smith, Steve Faulkner, Tactical Tech, Josep M. Ganyet, zeldman, Chris Heilmann, Ferran Morales, Gisele Navarro, Matt Navarra, Mike Ivars, hiten.eth, Ines Bieler, Eric Vitiello, Esther Schindler, PacielloGroup, Raphael Raue, Katja Evertz, Gabriele, Tarik ESSAADI, Adrian Roselli 🗯
The Ringer
The Day the Good Internet Died
~12 min read · 2021-07-21 · For a small slice of time, being online was a thrilling mix of discovery, collaboration, creativity, and chaotic potential. Then Google Reader disappeared.
Reader View · Shared by 644, including Richard Baxter, Taylor Lorenz, Katja Evertz, Mohamed Azazy, Martin Steiger 🍿🍿🍿, Gabriele, Mathew Ingram, Nick Lüthi, Jane, Brian Ahier, Danilo Heroso de Deus Pereira, Lydia Polgreen, Russell Zager, Felix M
