20230109
Amara’s Law: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”
Society: Bookings toilets in restaurants and cafés. Learnt about the UK PostOffice scandal. Biden pardons weed users. A bit more attention to Degrowth (and a bit more). GenZ thoughts about networking. London youth flee digital nomads. Millennials worse off than their parents.
Tech: Drones on the rise for smuggling. Cognitive mimetics. Detecting cyborgs?
Security: China cracks on posting military pictures. Another breach for health data, 4.5m impacted. Rite Aid went quite badly with facial recognition. OSINT - Sedition hunters.
AI: Trends of AI satisfaction with MS Copilot. Lawyers work impact with AI. AI impact on online freelancing platform (21% decrease). Rishi not regulating AI.
Random: Antilibrary. Anti-tank vespas. Can falling satellites kill people?
Keeping an eye on Co-intelligence, a soon to be released book.