Singularity Hub
Technology Over the Long Run: Zoom Out to See How Dramatically the World Can Change Within a Lifetime
4 min · · Bringing to mind how dramatically the world has changed can help us see how different the world could be in a few years or decades. · Shared by 198, including Pascal Sulser, Harold Sinnott #MWC23, Nicolas Babin, Marcus Borba, Howard Getson, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #MWC23
museumofplay.org
The History of Play-Doh: Good, Clean Fun!
3 min · · Chances are if you mention Play-Doh, your listener will know exactly to what you mean. Not only does the name elicit a mental image of the product in a small yellow can with a colorful lid, but it… · Shared by 107, including Pascal Sulser
Fast Company
MoMA’s newest artist is an AI trained on 180,000 works, from Warhol to Pac-Man
· Unsupervised reaches new highs in what’s possible with AI, creating a breathing being that synthesizes 180,000 artworks from MoMA.
· Shared by 156, including Robert Scoble, Nathan Benaich, Oliver Raduner, Pascal Sulser, Stephanie A Kowalski
Tomas Pueyo
The Democracy of the Future
18+ min · · What do these have in common: Elon’s Twitter, ants, General von Moltke’s strategy, brains, AI, prediction markets, and Wikipedia? The answer shows the path to the future of democracy. · Shared by 638, including Thomas Pleil, Pascal Sulser, Ines Bieler, Albert Ràfols
The Verge
The lawsuit that could rewrite the rules of AI copyright
9 min · · Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are being sued for allegedly violating copyright law by reproducing open-source code using AI. But the suit could have a huge impact on the wider world of artificial… · Shared by 201, including Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Dr Catherine Breslin, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, ipfconline, Fabio Chiusi, Albert Ràfols, Marsha Collier, Stephanie A Kowalski, Pascal Sulser, Brian Ahier, James Gingerich #MWC23 #WorldPoliceSummit
MIT Technology Review
Cars are still cars—even when they’re electric
3 min · · To tackle our climate challenges, we need smaller, safer EVs—and lots more transit options. · Shared by 47, including Pascal Sulser, Allison Arieff, Brent Toderian
reneweconomy.com.au
“Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough
2 min · · Deakin University researchers find a novel way to separate, store and transport huge amounts of gas safely that could be a eureka moment for green hydrogen. · Shared by 63, including Pascal Sulser, Tom Pick | #B2Bmarketing guy
Quanta Magazine
June Huh, High School Dropout, Wins the Fields Medal
20+ min · · June Huh wasn’t interested in mathematics until a chance encounter during his sixth year of college. Now his profound insights connecting combinatorics and geometry have led to math’s highest honor. · Shared by 493, including Anne Helen Petersen, hardmaru, Mathew Ingram, John Nosta, Michael Clemens, Packy McCormick, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Austin Kleon, Pam Didner, Bilal Zuberi, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, John Cutler, Danielle Fong 💁🏻♀️, Jason Stanley, Nathan Baschez 📧, Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan in other places), Daniel Cook (also on mastodon), Patricia Smith, dj patil, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦
The Pudding
We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it.
5 min · · Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds? · Shared by 555, including Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්, @nonfamous@sfba.social David Smith, David Robinson, Simon C, Pascal Sulser, Colin Wright, Tactical Tech, Stef Walter
Longreads
Tomorrow Isn’t Over: A Reading List About Brighter Futures
9 min · · Hope may seem to be in short supply these days, but these stories dare to chart a course toward something better. · Shared by 453, including Christo Meid, Katja Evertz, Pascal Sulser, Ines Bieler
Vox
The long, strange history of anti-vaccination movements
15+ min · · Here’s what the past can tell us about the future of the pandemic. · Shared by 114, including Jennifer Ouellette, Barry Ritholtz, Pascal Sulser, Loralee Hutton
The Economist
Yuval Noah Harari argues that what’s at stake in Ukraine is the direction of human history
6 min · · Humanity’s greatest political achievement has been the decline of war. That is now in jeopardy · Shared by 67, including Jason Silva, Yuval Noah Harari, Steven Pinker, purecoach, Susan Su, Tim Ferriss, cam 🏴☠️, Pascal Sulser
WIRED
If AI Is Predicting Your Future, Are You Still Free?
3 min · · Part of being human is being able to defy the odds. Algorithmic prophecies undermine that. · Shared by 248, including Nige Roberts-Willson, justin caouette, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Carissa Véliz, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Brian Ahier, Lauren Goode, Chris Isak 👩💻 #SXSW, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Nicolas Babin, Pascal Sulser, Albert Ràfols, Backchannel, Tactical Tech, Bob E. Hayes, LARRY ELKAN
The Wall Street Journal
Live Question & Answer Event
· Artificial intelligence, a product of human ingenuity, is assisting us in countless tasks in the fields of data analytics and science, medicine, finance and more. But what happens when AI begins to… · Shared by 11, including Pascal Sulser
Futurism
Scientists Are Building a “Black Box” to Record the End of Civilization
2 min · · Researchers are building a massive, indestructible box that’ll record scientific data to give future civilizations insight on how exactly humanity fell. · Shared by 490, including LARRY ELKAN, Pascal Sulser, @nonprofitorgs / Nonprofit Tech for Good, Brian Leiter https://universeodon.com/@BrianLeiter, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Carly, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali
The Guardian
The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing
9 min · · Since the 1980s, fossil fuel firms have run ads touting climate denial messages – many of which they’d now like us to forget. Here’s our visual guide · Shared by 454, including Thomas Power, Mary Annaïse Heglar, Dr. Genevieve Guenther, Bill McKibben, Emily is writing a book, Adrien Salazar, Chris Sacca 🇺🇸, Akshat Rathi, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Svein Tveitdal, Matthew Holt, Wolfgang Blau, Dr. Leah Stokes, Thomas Pleil, Gavin Schmidt, Rachel Dobbs is not here (very much), Jamie Sarai Margolin, Claudia Sommer, Prof Michael E. Mann, Tactical Tech
