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 472, 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 the $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 297, including Gabriele, Kevin Roberts, Pascal Sulser, Amicitia, Evan Kirstel the $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, Bilal Zuberi, Brian Leiter https://universeodon.com/@BrianLeiter, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Emily Johnston, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Eric Jorgenson, Julia Kaganskiy 🇺🇦, Surface Magazine, David Madden, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Keith Frankish, Eric Bailey, Bernard Marr, Dorothy Bishop
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 86, 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 (@BrendanNyhan in other places), Max Roser, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, 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 #MWC23, 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 434, including davidabrock, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Keerthi G, Jonathan Kogan, Pascal Sulser, Scott Monty, Konrad Weber, T. Greer, Ben Thompson, Esther Schindler, Thomas Billeter, Tom Connor, 💥💥 Larson Reever🇺🇸, Nir Eyal, Kyle Chayka, ⛓ José Luis Núñez ⛓, Gabriele
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
The Atlantic
A New Theory of Western Civilization
10 min · · Could a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago explain what made the industrialized world so powerful—and so peculiar? · Shared by 152, including Helen De Cruz, Pascal Sulser, Matt Ridley, Chris Isak 👩💻 #HM23, Kevin Roberts, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Björn Ognibeni, Matthias Lampe, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Rick Powell
The Guardian
Michael Sandel: 'The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit'
10 min · · The philosopher believes the liberal left’s pursuit of meritocracy has betrayed the working classes. His new book argues for a politics centred on dignity · Shared by 202, including Mark Little, Matthias Lampe, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Pascal Sulser, Harry Briggs, Katja Evertz, Bill Johnston, Barry C Smith, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Anita Leirfall, Clemens M. Schuster, Guy Longworth
