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9 Best Articles in 2021
Tim Urban
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1Tim 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.
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a16z
It's time to builda16z
7 min read · 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,…
coronavirus
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MIT Technology Review
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2020MIT Technology Review
~14 min read · 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. 
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Guardian Books
Daniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating…Guardian Books
7 min read · May 16th · The psychologist on applying his ideas to organisations, why we’re not equipped to grasp the spread of a virus, and the massive disruption that’s just round the corner
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Our main subject is really system noise. System noise is not a phenomenon within the individual, it’s a phenomenon within an organisation or within a system that is supposed to come to decisions that are uniform. It’s really a very different thing from subjectivity or bias.
People are willing to take far, far fewer risks when they face vaccination than when they face the disease. So this gap between the natural and the artificial is found everywhere.
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey: These are the skills you will need for the future of workMcKinsey & Company
9 min read · Jun 29th · Research has shown that while the need for manual skills will decline, the demand for technological, social and higher cognitive skills will increase.
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remote work
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all citizens will benefit from having a set of foundational skills that help them fulfill the following three criteria, no matter the sector in which they work or their occupation:  add value beyond what can be done by automated systems and intelligent machines operate in a digital environment continually adapt to new ways of working and new occupations
We started from four broad skill categories—cognitive, digital, interpersonal, and self-leadership—then identified 13 separate skill groups belonging to those categories.
Inc.
MIT Published a List of the 9 Megatrends That Will Shape the World in 2030. Here's What…Inc.
2 min read · 2020-02-25 · Climate change, transparency, and populism will be driving the workforce 10 years from now.
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HuffPost Green
Generation ScrewedHuffPost Green
20+ min read · From 2017 · Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.
millenials
despair
interactive
The Spectator
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. SeriouslyThe Spectator
6 min read · 2019-12-19 · 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…
society
technology
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OneZero
Survival of the RichestOneZero
~11 min read · 2019-08-18 · The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind
apocalypse
technology
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McKinsey: These are the skills you will need for the future of workMcKinsey & Company
9 min read · Jun 29th · Research has shown that while the need for manual skills will decline, the demand for technological, social and higher cognitive skills will increase.
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remote work
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all citizens will benefit from having a set of foundational skills that help them fulfill the following three criteria, no matter the sector in which they work or their occupation:  add value beyond what can be done by automated systems and intelligent machines operate in a digital environment continually adapt to new ways of working and new occupations
We started from four broad skill categories—cognitive, digital, interpersonal, and self-leadership—then identified 13 separate skill groups belonging to those categories.
VICE
MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We're on ScheduleVICE
5 min read · Jul 14th · A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we're unfortunately right on schedule.
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In 1972, a team of MIT scientists got together to study the risks of civilizational collapse. Their system dynamics model published by the Club of Rome identified impending ‘limits to growth’ (LtG) that meant industrial civilization was on track to collapse sometime within the 21st century, due to overexploitation of planetary resources.
The best available data suggests that what we decide over the next 10 years will determine the long-term fate of human civilization.
Gizmodo
In 2030, You Won't Own Any GadgetsGizmodo
8 min read · Jul 6th · When you buy a device that requires proprietary software to run, the money you hand over is an entry fee, nothing more.
gadgets
digital life
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We have access to transportation, accommodation, food, and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.
When you don’t own anything, you’re trading autonomy for convenience.
Emily Atkin
"What can I do?" Anything.Emily Atkin
9 min read · Jul 12th · The battle for a livable future is a battle against fossil fuels. Right now, it's all hands on deck.
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If the true urgency of climate change was not clear to Americans before, it should be clear by now. The mind-bending heat, drought, fire and flood sweeping the country are both nightmares and wake-up calls to the reality fossil fuels created.
The ability to participate in activism is a privilege. Many simply do not have the time, money, or emotional bandwidth to take on a global cause.
Aeon+Psyche
Empires, pandemics and the economic future of the WestAeon+Psyche
~12 min read · Jul 13th · What can the decline of the Roman Empire and the end of European feudalism tell us about COVID-19 and the future of the West?
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nature
After the pandemic: perspectives on the future trajectory of COVID-19nature
2 min read · Jul 9th · After the pandemic: perspectives on the future trajectory of COVID-19 This is an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. Nature Research are providing this early version of the…
coronavirus
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There is a realistic expectation that the global effort in vaccination will bring the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic under control.
Although the trajectory is difficult to predict, the conditions, concepts, and variables that influence this transition can be anticipated. Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 as an endemic virus, perhaps with seasonal epidemic peaks, may be fueled by pockets of susceptible individuals and waning immunity after infection or vaccination
The New York Times
Africa’s Covid Crisis Deepens, but Vaccines Are Still Far OffThe New York Times
10 min read · Jul 16th · Rich nations have bought up most doses long into the future, and there is little hope of a rescue in sight.
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Africa is now in the deadliest stage of its pandemic, and there is little prospect of relief in sight.
But only about 1 percent of Africans have been fully vaccinated. And even the African Union’s modest goal of getting 20 percent of the population vaccinated by the end of 2021 seems out of reach.
Stanford HAI
Designing Anti-Racist Technologies for a Just FutureStanford HAI
7 min read · Jul 2nd · Experts critiqued smart cities, agtech, blockchain, and policing during Stanford's first Technology and Racial Equity Conference.
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