Future is now
A collection about headlines, insights and stories than seem futuristic, but actually happening today.
Collection by Leoᵍᵐ
The Star Halifax
35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he…
13+ min · · The famed science fiction writer was wrong about a world government, but pretty close on robots. On computers, though ... · Shared by 589, including 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Pat Kua, Katja Evertz, Brian Roemmele, Andres Oppenheimer, Kevin Kelly, Dominik Grolimund, Herbert Bay, Marie-Christine Schindler, Liliane Ferrari ™, Ines Bieler, Philip Stehlik, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Oliver Gassner https://mastodon.social/@oliverg, Matthias Sala, Klaus Eck, Simon Wüthrich, Tac Anderson
The Verge
How hard will the robots make us work?
20+ min · · Shared by 576, including Paolo Pedercini 🥶, Nige Roberts-Willson, Jeff Toister, Terence Mills, LARRY ELKAN, Ronald van Loon, Mathew Ingram, Joanna J Bryson, Alf Rehn, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jon Keegan 🇺🇦, Scott Santens, Mike Tamir, PhD, Evan Selinger, Brian Solis, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Gerd Leonhard, John Hagel, Antonio Vieira Santos, Brooks Rainwater
The New York Times
Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
20+ min · · What we learned from the spy in your pocket. · Shared by 576, including Mathew Ingram, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Khoi Vinh, Alex Tabarrok 🛡️, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Robert Scoble, George J Huba PhD, Antonio Vieira Santos, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Rami Ismail (رامي), Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Randy Olson, felix salmon, John Battelle, zeldman, Rene Ritchie, Hilary Mason, Jeff Atwood, Gerry Moran, Chris Messina
The Guardian
Can a piece of software look after your elderly parent?
8 min · · Computers are increasingly guiding decisions about elder care – and tracking everything from toilet visits to whether someone has bathed · Shared by 551, including Carla Gentry 🎶, Prof. Sally Eaves, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Harold Sinnott, Iain Brown, PhD, Albert Ràfols, AI, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Marcus Borba, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Josep M. Ganyet, Brian Ahier, Ronald van Loon, StartUp Health, Nicolas Babin, Nige Roberts-Willson
The New York Times
Why an Animated Flying Cat With a Pop-Tart Body Sold for Almost $600,000
6 min · · A fast-growing market for digital art, ephemera and media is marrying the world’s taste for collectibles with cutting-edge technology. · Shared by 499, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Jamie Burke ⛺️, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Dirk von Gehlen 🤷🏻♂️, Cade Metz, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Phillip Murphy, Sam Proud, Gabriele, Cliff Bleszinski, Neeraj K Agrawal, Tyler Winklevoss, Christian Hartmann, Paul Bloom, Scott Monty, Alyssa C, Maggie Koerth, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
The Cut
Buying Myself Back
20+ min · · When does a model own her own image? · Shared by 479, including Olivia Nuzzi, Hunter Walker, Grace Bonney, Jen Simmons, Matt Zoller Seitz, The Fashion Law, IamNomad, Tara Parker-Pope, Melissa Silverstein, Kashmir Hill, Alexia Bonatsos, Chris Messina, 🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨, Mathew Ingram, Kyle Chayka, Jerry Saltz, Lauren Leatherby, Gisele Navarro, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, Zoë McLaren, Ph.D.
MIT Technology Review
We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law
8 min · · It has fueled prosperity of the last 50 years. But the end is now in sight. · Shared by 397, including Pippa Malmgren, Carolyn Porco, Vikram Dutt, Marsha Collier, Andreas Staub, Nige Roberts-Willson, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Sébastien Bonset, Katja Evertz, Brian Ahier, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Matthias Lampe, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Thomas Power, Stephan Woodtli, Brett King #TheFuturists #OptimalHumanity ✈️, Elena Neira, Richard Joerges, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, John Nosta
The Correspondent
The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising
20+ min · · In 2018 $273bn was spent on digital ads globally. We delve into the world of clicks, banners and keywords to find out if any of it is real. What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital… · Shared by 397, including zeldman, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Rutger Bregman, Chris Gledhill, Michael Bench-Capon, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Mathew Ingram, douglas rushkoff, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Nir Eyal, John Koetsier, front-end.social/@heydon, Contagious, Scott Berkun, Mark Little, Horace Dediu, Tadhg Kelly (also tiedtiger on BSky and Threads), Rob Markey, Douglas Burdett📚🎙️, Eric Seufert
MIT Technology Review
AI is wrestling with a replication crisis
11+ min · · Last month Nature published a damning response written by 31 scientists to a study from Google Health that had appeared in the journal earlier this year. Google was describing successful trials of an… · Shared by 373, including Gary Marcus, Iain Brown, PhD, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Dean Anthony Gratton, Martin Ford, Tom Raftery, Marcus Borba, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Bob E. Hayes, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Tamara McCleary, Yves Mulkers, Brian Ahier, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Nige Roberts-Willson, Carla Gentry 🎶, Katja Evertz, Nicolas Babin, Matteo Carbone, John Nosta
Packy McCormick
The Great Online Game
16+ min · · How to Win the Internet · Shared by 302, including Ali Montag, Marc Garriga, Balaji, Chris Messina, Nabeel Hyatt, yeon, Tyler Rooney, Emeka C Anen, Mark Kaigwa, Elad Gil, cdixon.eth, Kyle Bunch
generated.photos
100,000 AI-Generated Faces
· Explore our free resource of 100k high-quality faces, each entirely generated by AI. Use them in your projects, mockups, or wherever — all for just a link back to us! · Shared by 298, including Josep M. Ganyet, Steve Rayson, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Design Shack, Gary Thomas 🌐, Joan Lockwood, Mike Ivars, Ines Bieler, Paolo Pedercini 🥶, Nils Hitze, Fabricio Teixeira, Mike Taylor, Clive Thompson, Christopher Lauer™, Mike Davidson, Jess 🇺🇦, Chris Messina, Troy Hunt, Mohamed Azazy, THAT @REM SHOW
WIRED
I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget
3 min · · In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I'm forever getting married. · Shared by 285, including Owen Williams ⚡, Mathew Ingram, Casey Newton, M.G. Siegler, Boone, Bethany Brookshire, Lauren Goode, anildash.com, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Kashmir Hill, DHH, Jon Keegan 🇺🇦, Rene Ritchie, Kyle Chayka, Backchannel, Kevin Roose, Steven Sinofsky, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Kara Swisher
The New York Times
Are We in the Metaverse Yet?
11+ min · · Crypto people say they’re building it. Gamers might already be living in it. The art world is cashing in on it. Web veterans are trying to save it. But what is it? · Shared by 278, including Michael (मुकेश), Kat M. Moss, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, Nancy, TonyParisi.eth, Barry Silbert, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jane IMAGINABLE McGonigal ❤️, Christopher Mims 🤌, Paul Kedrosky, Zoe Scaman, Bill Johnston, Katja Evertz
WIRED UK
Forget about artificial intelligence, extended intelligence is the future
5 min · · We should challenge the cult of Singularity. AI won't take over the world · Shared by 257, including Joi Ito, Ines Bieler, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Klaus Eck, Mark Tabladillo PhD, Sergio Caredda, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Peter Schmidhuber, Stephan Woodtli, Florian Hanke 🍎, Cyrill Schmid, Gerd Leonhard, Phrasee, Bertrand Maltaverne, Howard Getson, Glyn Britton, Niklaus Gerber, Antonio Vieira Santos, Clemens M. Schuster
WIRED
Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?
7 min · · Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can't afford to blithely play along. · Shared by 245, including 🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Dominik Grolimund, Mathew Ingram, Adam Tinworth, zoeamar, Chris Messina, Loubna Rais, Franziska Bluhm 💥, Matt Navarra, MΛRC VIDΛL, Mark Kaigwa, Tris Hussey, Gerd Leonhard, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Brian Solis, ɯoɔ ʇop pןɐʍuɐƃɐɹ uo ǝɯ puıɟ, Fabricio Teixeira, Backchannel, Marsha Collier
WIRED
The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons
3 min · · Drills involving swarms of drones raise questions about whether machines could outperform a human operator in complex scenarios. · Shared by 237, including Christian Hernandez, Stephan Woodtli, Martin Ford, AI, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Backchannel, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Sword Bisexual, Nicolas Babin, Christian Hartmann, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Pippa Malmgren, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Brian Ahier, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ 🛡️