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“Among many other things, a physical business enlivens public space, by making the simple, eloquent statement: I am here, working. There’s a scientific glassblowing studio north of us; I walk past it on the sidewalk often. By simply existing, and having a nice sign that faces the street, they are doing a small public service every day. Part of the problem of social media is that there is no equivalent to the scientific glassblowers’ sign, or the woodworker’s open door, or Dafna and Jesse’s sandwich boards. On the internet, if you stop speaking: you disappear. If you could put on magic internet goggles that enabled you to see through this gnarly selection bias[…] All the tumult of Twitter would shrink into a single weird cafe—just a speck, in an enormous city made up entirely of people quietly working".” - Work with the garage door up
People: Indonesia partners’ rental. 85m jobs unfilled because not enough people in 2030. What life means to Einstein (PDF interview).
Immigration and the UK care crisis. Granfluencers. Assistive products become joy/luxury. Funerals renewals.Tech/infra: New canals in Europe (w/ CZ) and in Asia. Google patent for the perfect shot. Future in bifacial PV. China push on wind and solar. What is digital transformation. Creepy world of digital afterlife. Hottest clubs/lounges are .. credit cards’.
Futures: Questions in critical futures studies. UN summit of the future. A gold bar now reaches 1m.
AI: AI for biodiversity cataloguing. NIST proposes new quantum-proof encryption techniques. Warning AI tools in govUK are biased. KPMG on AI colleagues for Customer Experience (PDF). AI-enhanced work models (by Upwork). MIT AI for collaboration. Better than real men. AI scientist.
Random: A great interactive piece about suffering, art and poetry [not often talking about great code, but there it is].
Work with the garage door up, Also see, the DocWeb.
