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WIRED
Humanity Is Doing Its Best Impression of a Black Hole
WIRED
2 min read · Sep 6th · Daniel Holz studies the universe’s ultimate catastrophes. And he knows a thing or two about existential threats on Earth, since he helps set the Doomsday Clock. · Shared by 20, including Jennifer Ouellette, LARRY ELKAN
Ribbonfarm
ε/δ Thinking
Ribbonfarm
7 min read · Sep 16th · We live in a world shaped by, and highly conducive to, discrete or 0/1 thinking. But not so long ago, we lived in a world shaped by, and highly conducive to, a kind of thinking you could call… · Shared by 77
Noema Magazine
How Game Design Principles Can Enhance Democracy
Noema Magazine
~12 min read · Sep 20th · Our democracies are already gamified. Our goal should be to do it better. · Shared by 138, including Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing
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Big Think
Why is it so hard to escape short-term thinking? Biology and technology
Big Think
6 min read · Aug 17th · Short-term thinking is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it? · Shared by 552, including Peter Herger
The Guardian
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
The Guardian
~13 min read · Sep 4th · Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences · Shared by 446, including Bruce Lawson, William Gibson, Tactical Tech, Taylor Lorenz, Claudia Sommer, Scott Monty, Gerd Leonhard, Jeff Jarvis, Luke Robert Mason, Julia Kaganskiy 🇺🇦, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Merkstatt, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), zeldman, Scott Santens, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Aniyia (🗣 Anita without the T) ❤️, douglas rushkoff, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Craig Mod
BBC Future
How many people can Earth handle?
BBC Future
20+ min read · Sep 6th · This year, the human population on Earth is expected to reach eight billion. To mark the occasion, BBC Future takes a look at one of the most controversial issues of our time. · Shared by 316, including Nicolas Babin #CES2023, Rick Powell, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Howard Getson
Real Life
Life’s a Glitch — Real Life
Real Life
~17 min read · Aug 29th · The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present · Shared by 197, including Taylor Lorenz
Outside
The Future May Be Bleak. Plant the Tree and Have the Child Anyway.
Outside
2 min read · Sep 8th · Shared by 177
doc.cc
The aesthetics of our new fictions
doc.cc
~13 min read · Aug 30th · Visual symbols are powerful ways to make social constructs —from fashion to government— feel legitimate, trustworthy, and familiar. What's the role that design play in shaping our future fictions? · Shared by 172, including Esther Schindler
Noema Magazine
How Game Design Principles Can Enhance Democracy
Noema Magazine
~12 min read · Sep 20th · Our democracies are already gamified. Our goal should be to do it better. · Shared by 138, including Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing
Vox
Effective altruism’s most controversial idea
Vox
20+ min read · Sep 6th · Longtermism is influencing billionaires and politicians. Should it guide the future of humanity? · Shared by 129, including Philanthropy News Digest, William MacAskill
The New Statesman
We look to the young for a better future – but they are turning away from democracy
The New Statesman
4 min read · Sep 8th · Hostility to democracy runs deep because the establishment has failed to uphold its side of the bargain. · Shared by 116, including Eric Bailey, James Anderson
Ribbonfarm
ε/δ Thinking
Ribbonfarm
7 min read · Sep 16th · We live in a world shaped by, and highly conducive to, discrete or 0/1 thinking. But not so long ago, we lived in a world shaped by, and highly conducive to, a kind of thinking you could call… · Shared by 77
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Tim Urban
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1
Tim Urban
20+ min read · From 2017 · Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about. · Shared by 1631, including Ricky Yean, Mark Kaigwa, Gideonro, Marko Saric, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Kris Fannin, FANZO 🧢 #NFT365, Casey Smith, #bottish, Thomas Power, Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker, Christoph Magnussen, Ian M Calvert, Herbert Bay, Parin Vachhani, Chris Messina, Josep M. Ganyet, Courtney Bolton ★, Ron McIntyre, Max Roser
a16z
It's time to build
a16z
7 min read · From 2020 · 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,… · Shared by 1529, including Ryan Selkis 🥷, Erik Voorhees, benahorowitz.eth, OM, Barry Silbert, The Crypto Dog🫐, Vala Afshar, Royal County Lindzon, cdixon.eth, John Carmack, Paul Graham, Marc Andreessen, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️, Balaji Srinivasan, Naval, Jonathan Haidt, Brian Armstrong, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Tim Ferriss, Christina Sommers
BBC Future
Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'?
BBC Future
~16 min read · Jun 16th · A growing and influential intellectual movement aims to understand why human progress happens – and how to speed it up. Garrison Lovely investigates. · Shared by 1526, including Jeff Jarvis, Tactical Tech, Miguel Angel Escotet, John Nosta
MIT Technology Review
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2020
MIT Technology Review
Summary · ~14 min read · From 2020 · 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. · Shared by 1338, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Sam Harris, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, getAbstract, Vala Afshar, Martin Ford, Harry Briggs, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #SuiteWorld #UIPathForward, danah boyd, Martin Varsavsky 🇺🇦, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz, Claudia Sommer, Eric Topol, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, John Nosta, Brian Ahier, Daniel Kraft, MD, Gerd Leonhard, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁
alexsteffen.substack.com
Old thinking will break your brain.
alexsteffen.substack.com
~20 min read · May 27th · Why updating the way we look at the world is so critical now, and so hard, and how we can get better at doing it. · Shared by 1210, including Prof Michael E. Mann, Merkstatt, Katja Evertz, Dr. Genevieve Guenther, Ines Bieler, Michelle Boisson, Alexandria Villaseñor, David Wallace-Wells, Akshat Rathi
bariweiss.substack.com
The Case for American Seriousness
bariweiss.substack.com
6 min read · Apr 18th · We don't need aging institutions to pave the way for 21st-century dynamism. What we need is will. And audacity. · Shared by 1137, including Scott Galloway, benahorowitz.eth, Packy McCormick, Bryce Roberts, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Elad Gil, Diogo Mónica, Tara Imani, AIA NCIDQ ASID, cdixon.eth, Michael Eisenberg, Nathan Benaich, Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛, Jeffrey Flier, Eghosa Omoigui, Paul Graham, Niall Ferguson
The Atlantic
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
The Atlantic
Summary · 20+ min read · Apr 11th · It’s not just a phase. · Shared by 1063, including Yann LeCun, Brian Solis, Daniel Pink, zeldman, John Battelle, Richard Dawkins, Jonathan Haidt, Jeff Atwood, Niall Ferguson, Peter McCormack 🏴☠️, Paul Graham, William Gibson, Marsha Collier, John Burn-Murdoch, Anne Applebaum, Paul Kedrosky, Scott Galloway, Bill Gross, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Brian Stelter
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey: These are the skills you will need for the future of work
McKinsey & Company
9 min read · 2021-06-29 · Research has shown that while the need for manual skills will decline, the demand for technological, social and higher cognitive skills will increase. · Shared by 1060, including ⭐️Danielle Guzman ⭐️, Benjamin B., Ahiesh PVS, Matteo Carbone, Thomas Pleil, Stefan Diepolder, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Matthias Wiencke, Nicolas Babin #CES2023, Jessel Sookha, Johannes Dornisch, Vala Afshar, Matthias Kahr, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Gabriele, Helen Yu, Jonathan Kogan, Josep M. Ganyet, Damir Kusar, Kyle Bunch
The Verge
What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?
The Verge
~11 min read · 2021-10-04 · The dream of an embodied future internet is back. · Shared by 1044, including Nicolas Babin #CES2023, Alex Tabarrok, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Ines Bieler, Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇, Katja Evertz, Kat M. Moss, Phillip Murphy, San Jose Community NETWORK, Real Marsha Wright®, Thomas Power, Adam R, Tony Parisi.eth🇺🇦#SpecialMaster of the Metaverse, yeon, Jonathan Kogan
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