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World Economic Forum
17 ways technology could change the world by 2027
World Economic Forum
~14 min read · May 10th · We asked the World Economic Forum's new class of Technology Pioneers for their views on how technology will change the world in the next five years - this is what they told us.
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Harvard Business Review
Technology and Human Vulnerability
Harvard Business Review
~18 min read · May 14th · Reprint: R0309B For most of the last 50 years, technology knew its place. Yes, we all spent a lot of time with it, but even five years ago, few people would seriously claim that technology had taken…
dwarkeshpatel.com
Talent as leverage
dwarkeshpatel.com
6 min read · May 1st · 10x engineers, tech bubbles, and the PayPal mafia
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Rest of World
Google and Meta’s underwater cables up the stakes on internet control
Rest of World
20+ min read · May 10th · Google and Meta’s new subsea cables mark a tectonic shift in how the internet works, and who controls it.
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Quanta Magazine
Computer Scientists Prove Certain Problems Are Truly Hard
Quanta Magazine
7 min read · May 11th · Finding out whether a question is too difficult to ever solve efficiently depends on figuring out just how hard it is. Researchers have now shown how to do that for a major class of problems.
Vox
Is this another tech bubble bursting?
Vox
4 min read · May 13th · And should you, a normal person, care?
Harvard Business Review
Web3 Is Our Chance to Make a Better Internet
Harvard Business Review
10 min read · May 12th · Web3 represents a chance to reimagine the internet and rebuild platforms from fresh principles. But in order to do that, we need to agree on what those principles should be and why. The social and…
Big Think
What Nietzsche can teach us about embracing risk and failure in an age of technological comforts
Big Think
5 min read · May 11th · Safety through technology is no bad thing—Nietzsche himself sought doctors and medicines throughout his life—but it can become pathological.
Ars Technica
How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in 1 stroke
Ars Technica
6 min read · May 6th · You've heard for years that easier, more secure logins are imminent. That day is here.
The New York Times
On Tech: Good products and bad businesses
The New York Times
4 min read · May 9th · All newslettersRead online</
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harvardmagazine.com
Authoritarian Regimes’ AI Innovation Advantage
harvardmagazine.com
May 5th · Unfettered access to personal data may give Chinese companies an edge in artificial intelligence.
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A Web Renaissance
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Apr 13th · Thanks to the mistrust of big tech, the creation of better tools for developers, and the weird and wonderful creativity of ordinary people, we’re seeing an incredibly unlikely comeback: the web is thriving again. If you had to pick the unexpected breakout consumer tech hit of 2022, you could
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Visual Capitalist
How Do Big Tech Giants Make Their Billions?
Visual Capitalist
8 min read · Apr 25th · In 2021, the Big Five tech giants—Apple, Amazon, Google (Alphabet), Meta, and Microsoft—generated a combined $1.4 trillion in revenue. What are the sources of this revenue, and how does it breakdown?…
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Aeon+Psyche
Why we should remember Alan Turing as a philosopher
Aeon+Psyche
~16 min read · Apr 21st · Alan Turing was a pioneer of machine learning, whose work continues to shape the crucial question: can machines think?
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Ars Technica
How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in 1 stroke
Ars Technica
6 min read · May 6th · You've heard for years that easier, more secure logins are imminent. That day is here.
Rest of World
In the dark: the internet sparked a revolution, then it was turned off
Rest of World
20+ min read · Apr 26th · Seven years, 60 countries, 935 internet shutdowns: How authoritarian regimes found an off switch for dissent.
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dwarkeshpatel.com
The mystery of the miracle year
dwarkeshpatel.com
7 min read · Apr 14th · An interesting pattern seems to recur across the career of great scientists - an annus mirabilis (miracle year) in which they make multiple seemingly independent breakthroughs in the span of a single…
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rootsofprogress.org
Why pessimism sounds smart
rootsofprogress.org
2 min read · Apr 26th · Optimism requires believing in an unknown, unproven future
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The Verge
Google, Meta, and others will have to explain their algorithms under new EU legislation
The Verge
3 min read · Apr 23rd · The EU’s new legislation is designed to explain the web to users
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Big Think
What Nietzsche can teach us about embracing risk and failure in an age of technological comforts
Big Think
5 min read · May 11th · Safety through technology is no bad thing—Nietzsche himself sought doctors and medicines throughout his life—but it can become pathological.
Vox
Is this another tech bubble bursting?
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4 min read · May 13th · And should you, a normal person, care?
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moxie.org
My first impressions of web3
moxie.org
~14 min read · Jan 7th · Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click…
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MIT Technology Review
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2020
MIT Technology Review
~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.
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tante
The Third Web
tante
20+ min read · 2021-12-17 · I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to write this thing, that blockchains and NFTs and all that would just go away and become a chapter in a book about weird economic scams. But if 2021 taught us anything it’s that we can’t have nice things so here we are.
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The Verge
NFTs, explained
The Verge
10 min read · 2021-03-03
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medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
medium.com
~16 min read · From 2016 · When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want you to show you where it might do the opposite.
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OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
OpenAI
20+ min read · 2021-01-05 · We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
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anildash
A Web Renaissance
anildash
Apr 13th · Thanks to the mistrust of big tech, the creation of better tools for developers, and the weird and wonderful creativity of ordinary people, we’re seeing an incredibly unlikely comeback: the web is thriving again. If you had to pick the unexpected breakout consumer tech hit of 2022, you could
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TIME
100 Best Inventions of 2021
TIME
2021-11-10 · Groundbreaking innovations that are making the world better, smarter and a little more fun
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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.
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