This week, perhaps David Letterman shouldn’t have had Joan Rivers as his final guest.
This week, perhaps David Letterman shouldn’t have had Joan Rivers as his final guest.
- Old Print Articles: Harold McCracken hunts for mummies of prehistoric peoples (1928) + Sir Hubert Wilkins plans a submarine exploration of the North Pole (1929).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Don’t touch your penis after touching my Penis Peppers + We’ll believe any bullshit you make up.
- In Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford examines automation and unemployment.
- Bernie Sanders did an AMA and discussed technological unemployment.
- In 1992, Andy Grove thought the smartphone “a pipe dream driven by greed.”
- The home of the future may be a Facebook-like Faustian bargain.
- In 1970, a Pennsylvania family enjoyed a networked home computer.
- Stafford Beer’s early-’70s Project Cybersyn may still have lessons to teach.
- SpaceX began with a dream of sending mice to Mars in a rocket.
- Airplanes may already be prone to remote smartphone hacks.
- Google has taken an all-or-nothing approach to driverless cars.
- In the Uber age, taxi-medallion owners may be ruined.
- Postmates wants to become the “Uber of goods,” but so does Uber.
- Nicholas Carr thinks humans and computers should be a permanent team.
- Perhaps software should challenge us rather than replace us.
- Smartphone-guided “cruise control for pedestrians” is troubling.
- William Davies provides a tour of the “Happiness Industry.”
- The DARPA Robotics Challenge is only open to rescue robots–for now.
- The future might be one of multi-species intelligence, but that’s complicated.
- For better or worse, AI will bring about Ambient Intelligence.
- Moore’s Law, amazing though it is, can’t be applied to everything.
- Billionaires can’t find good schools for their kids, so Elon Musk founded his own.
- David Christian teaches history beginning with the origins of the universe.
- Ai Wewei addresses human-rights abuses in the U.S. and China.
- Despite China’s rise, Chinese dialects won’t become global languages.
- Napoleon’s public burial led to many cases of delusions of grandeur.
- An Oliver Sacks reading list of 50 books.
- Joseph Heller’s best novel is not Catch-22.
- International kidnapping is big business.
- A brief note from 1934 about Putty Philpotts.
- A brief note from 1907 about a wonderful habit.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.