9 Best Articles in 2021
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It's time to build
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6 min read · 1410 saves · 2020-04-18 · Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade,…
Tim Urban
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1
Tim Urban
1396 saves · From 2015 · Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.
MIT Technology Review
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2020
MIT Technology Review
~13 min read · 1366 saves · 2020-02-26 · MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2020 outlines scientific discoveries, available now or in the very near future, that could most profoundly change people’s lives. Included this year: unhackable internet service; individual designer drugs; the proliferation of digital currency; anti-aging treatments; AI molecule searches for better medicines; satellite constellations boosting remote internet access; new uses for quantum computers, tiny, powerful AI apps for phones; bolstering Census privacy; and more accurate climate change forecasts.
Inc.
MIT Published a List of the 9 Megatrends That Will Shape the World in 2030. Here's What…
Inc.
2 min read · 669 saves · 2020-02-25 · Climate change, transparency, and populism will be driving the workforce 10 years from now.
HuffPost Green
Generation Screwed
HuffPost Green
20+ min read · 636 saves · From 2017 · Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.
The Spectator
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
The Spectator
5 min read · 617 saves · 2019-12-21 · Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen…
OneZero
Survival of the Richest
OneZero
~11 min read · 589 saves · 2019-08-09 · Douglas Rushkoff · The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind
World Economic Forum
These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2020
World Economic Forum
6 min read · 572 saves · 2020-11-11 · Want to know about the tech set to change the world in the near future? This list is a good place to start.
Harvard Business Review
Digital Transformation Is About Talent, Not Technology
Harvard Business Review
7 min read · 564 saves · 2020-05-06 · How to future-proof your personnel — especially in uncertain times.
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The coming tech-driven productivity leap
Axios
2 min read · 209 saves · 2020-12-27 · Productivity growth has been stagnant for years, but new technologies are finally set to change that.
WIRED
30 Years Since the Human Genome Project Began, What’s Next?
WIRED
8 min read · 153 saves · 2020-12-30 · Megan Molteni · Eric Green, head of the nation’s top genomics research institute, looks back on how far the field has come and shares his bold vision for the future.
Rodney Brooks
Predictions Scorecard, 2021 January 01
Rodney Brooks
20+ min read · 87 saves · Jan 1st · On January 1st, 2018, I made predictions about self driving cars, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, and about progress in the space industry. Those predictions had dates attached to them…
Vox
The year shopping changed forever
Vox
7 min read · 68 saves · 2020-12-29 · Online shopping stopped being the future of retail and catapulted firmly into the present.
Fast Company
The 10 most exciting world-changing ideas of 2020
Fast Company
7 min read · 65 saves · 2020-12-28 · Morgan Clendaniel · From new masks to four-day workweeks to cancelling rent to genetically engineered mosquitoes, here are the ideas that blew our minds this year.
Axios
The uncertain future of human reproduction
Axios
2 min read · 60 saves · Jan 9th · Parents of the future might be able to create egg and sperm cells from their own skin
M.G. Siegler
Apple’s Future-Proof Car
M.G. Siegler
9 min read · 60 saves · 2020-12-27 · Always in the future and lacking proof…
New Statesman
Ten crucial questions about the world in 2021
New Statesman
10 min read · 14 saves · Jan 15th · Last January I published ten questions about the world in 2020 and made predictions for each. On 29 December I returned to those predictions, marking their accuracy on a scale of zero to three and…
New Statesman
Seven predictions for the world in 2021
New Statesman
2 min read · 12 saves · Jan 11th · Though it may feel like longer, 2021 is only a little over a week old. Before the year progresses much further, therefore, I am tempting fate by making predictions for America and the wider world.…
The Guardian
It gets … worse: what can we learn from movies set in 2021?
The Guardian
5 min read · 11 saves · Jan 4th · Charles Bramesco · A look ahead, courtesy of movies set in the next 12 months, suggests we should expect natural disasters, all-consuming tech and a super swine flu
