WIRED
The Secret Auction that Set Off the Race for AI Supremacy
3 min · · How the shape of deep learning—and the fate of the tech industry—went up for sale in Harrah's Room 731, on the shores of Lake Tahoe. · Shared by 207, including Martin Ford, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, AI, Patricia Churchland, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Delip Rao e/σ, Brian Ahier, Christian Hernandez, Terence Mills, Adrienne Fichter, Backchannel, Cade Metz, Pascal Sulser, hardmaru, Toni Juan, Harold Sinnott
Bloomberg
Air Pollution Kills Far More People Than Covid Ever Will
· Bloomberg connects decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Read this story on Bloomberg. · Shared by 25, including tylercowen, Pascal Sulser, David Wallace-Wells, Reto Knutti
The Guardian
What will the next decade bring? Here are 20 predictions from trend forecasters
5 min · · Like all predictions, these should be taken with a grain of salt ... · Shared by 470, including Malik El Bay 🕊🔰🇲🇦, Kevin Roberts, Amicitia, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Johannes Dornisch, Neil Hart 💙, Pascal Sulser, Blake Morgan, Ines Bieler, Alyssa C, Kyle Bunch, Lee Keyes
Harvard Business Review
The Commercial Space Age Is Here
8 min · · Private space travel is just the beginning. · Shared by 45, including Blake Morgan, Pascal Sulser
World Economic Forum
Consumer mindsets are local despite spread of globalization
4 min · · New research proposes taking a localized approach to consumer tastes and attitudes in order for companies to thrive commercially in different countries. · Shared by 82, including Pascal Sulser, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Birgit Schefer
The Atlantic
The Library of Possible Futures
9 min · · Since the release of Alvin Toffler’s "Future Shock" 50 years ago, the allure of speculative nonfiction has remained the same: We all want to know what’s coming next. · Shared by 360, including Gabriele, Kevin Roberts, Pascal Sulser, Amicitia, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ian M Calvert
euronews
Scientists have taught spinach to send emails
2 min · · It sounds too weird to be true, but engineers at MIT have developed nanotechnology which can be embedded in plants. · Shared by 121, including John Hagel, Ross Dawson, maggiefox 🇺🇦, Carl T. Bergstrom, Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician), Rebecca Roache, Dorothy Bishop, Brian Leiter https://universeodon.com/@BrianLeiter, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Emily Johnston, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Eric Jorgenson, Julia Kaganskiy 🇺🇦, Bilal Zuberi, David Madden, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Keith Frankish, Eric Bailey, Bernard Marr, Surface Magazine
sfdictionary.com
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
3 min · · Welcome to the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. This work-in-progress is a comprehensive quotation-based dictionary of the language of science fiction. The HD/SF is an offshoot of a project… · Shared by 94, including Lynne Murphy, Pascal Sulser, Fred Scharmen, Joe Germuska, Gretchen Rubin, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu
rootsofprogress.org
Technological stagnation: Why I came around
9 min · · I was skeptical at first, but have come to believe the stagnation hypothesis. Here's why · Shared by 13, including Pascal Sulser, Jason Crawford, Julia Galef
pewsocialtrends.org
Trends in U.S. income and wealth inequality
10 min · · Barely 10 years past the end of the Great Recession in 2009, the U.S. economy is doing well on several fronts. The labor market is on a job-creating · Shared by 18, including Scott McLeod, Peter Brandt, Pascal Sulser, Christopher Lauer™
elidourado.com
Notes on technology in the 2020s
20+ min · · Will we end the Great Stagnation? Here are the technologies I'm watching in the next decade. · Shared by 238, including Anand Sanwal, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Patrick Collison, hiten.eth, Ryan Hoover, Rick Pastoor, Allen Gannett, lehrjulian, Brendan Nyhan (@Brendan.J.Nyhan on 🧵🧵🧵), Noah Smith, Max Roser, Pete Skomoroch, Casey Newton, Harry Briggs, micah.fyi, Konrad Weber, Brian Armstrong 🛡️, David Wallace-Wells, adam ludwin, Devon ☀️
Behavioral Scientist
The Mother of All Cognitive Illusions
6 min · · It’s little wonder that people would believe that higher taxes would make them feel bad. But this is a cognitive error, pure and simple. · Shared by 19, including Tom Connor, Pascal Sulser
The Spectator
The insidious attacks on scientific truth
7 min · · What is truth? You can speak of moral truths and aesthetic truths but I’m not concerned with those here, important as they may be. By truth I shall mean the kind of truth that a commission of inquiry… · Shared by 164, including Patricia Churchland, Matthias Lampe, Pascal Sulser, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Chris Bertram, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social, Tim, Liam Bright, Matt Ridley, Richard Dawkins
WIRED
All the Stuff Humans Make Now Outweighs Earth’s Organisms
2 min · · Anthropogenic mass—concrete, metal, and other human creations—has grown to be heavier than plants, animals, and microbes combined. Planet Earth is not happy. · Shared by 14, including Nicolas Babin, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Pascal Sulser
Stratechery
The Idea Adoption Curve
11+ min · · Mapping the technology adoption curve to ideas gives insights as to which business models work on which parts of the addressable market. · Shared by 451, including davidabrock, Thomas Billeter, Pascal Sulser, Jonathan Kogan, Tom Connor, Scott Monty, Konrad Weber, T. Greer, Ben Thompson, Esther Schindler, 💥💥 Larson Reever🇺🇸, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Nir Eyal, Kyle Chayka, ⛓ José Luis Núñez ⛓, Gabriele, Keerthi G
Fast Company
Innovation by Design 2020: The 30 winners that are changing our world
5 min · · This year’s Innovation by Design Awards honor the 567 most creative designs in business. · Shared by 196, including Stephan Woodtli, Stephanie A Kowalski, Darren Long, Gabriele, Pascal Sulser