9 Best Articles in 2021
MIT Technology Review
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2020
MIT Technology Review
~13 min read · 1369 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.
medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
medium.com
~16 min read · 1088 saves · 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.
Fast Company
All the things COVID-19 will change forever, according to 30 top experts
Fast Company
~11 min read · 918 saves · 2020-04-20 · Mark Sullivan · The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly changed how the world does business. Work shifted, where possible, into people’s homes and online in accordance with social distancing guidelines. As a result, businesses’ longstanding resistance to remote employees dissolved, and the lines between work and family life, long blurred, blended overnight. Even when life returns to some form of normal, some of these changes will stick, according to tech journalist Mark Sullivan's interviews with CEOs and business leaders from a cross-section of industries.
OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
OpenAI
20+ min read · 788 saves · Jan 5th · 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.
The New York Times
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
The New York Times
4 min read · 678 saves · 2020-11-21 · The people in this story may look familiar, like ones you’ve seen on Facebook or Twitter or Tinder. But they don’t exist. They were born from the mind of a computer, and the technology behind them is…
The Atlantic
China Is the First Surveillance Superpower
The Atlantic
20+ min read · 642 saves · 2020-07-29 · Ross Andersen · Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
Slate
Which Tech Company Is Really the Most Evil?
Slate
620 saves · 2020-01-15 · The 30 most dangerous corporations in the industry, ranked by the people who know.
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…
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OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
OpenAI
20+ min read · 788 saves · Jan 5th · 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.
The New York Times
He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World.
The New York Times
6 min read · 409 saves · Jan 10th · Steve Lohr · Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal. Can he succeed?
WIRED
A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
WIRED
2 min read · 229 saves · Jan 5th · Steven Levy · In 1995, a WIRED cofounder challenged a Luddite-loving doomsayer to a prescient wager on tech and civilization’s fate. Now their judge weighs in.
Stratechery
Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History
Stratechery
~12 min read · 194 saves · Jan 12th · Ben Thompson · The actions taken by Big Tech have a resonance that goes beyond the context of domestic U.S. politics. Even if they were right, they will still push the world to Internet 3.0.
The New York Times
Inside Twitter’s Decision to Cut Off Trump
The New York Times
8 min read · 190 saves · Jan 16th · Jack Dorsey, the chief executive, had reservations about locking the president’s account. But the calls for violence that his tweets provoked were too overwhelming.
WIRED
Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection
WIRED
3 min read · 175 saves · Jan 7th · Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have spent years fomenting and enabling yesterday's violence at the Capitol. Policymakers need to do something about it.
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Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet?
a16z
3 min read · 106 saves · Jan 14th · AS THE INTERNET has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over its most important services has gradually shifted from open source protocols maintained by non-profit communities to proprietary…
WIRED
What to Expect From the First-Ever Virtual CES
WIRED
5 min read · 88 saves · Jan 8th · Lauren Goode · The show must go on.
WIRED
Listening to Black Women: The Innovation Tech Can't Crack
WIRED
2 min read · 87 saves · Jan 11th · Sydette Harry · Tech creators and journalists ignore the insights and experiences of Black women—and fail to see the harm of their "innovations."
POLITICO
To Thrive, Our Democracy Needs Digital Public Infrastructure
POLITICO
5 min read · 83 saves · Jan 5th · It’s time to start building online versions of the libraries, parks and other public spaces that make societies and democracies work.
