This week, the reeling Trump campaign, still without a manager for its California operation, surprisingly announced a minority was being considered for the position.
- Donald Trump, equal parts George Steinbrenner and George Wallace, released mouthfarts in WaPo.
- Markus Feldenkirchen and David Remnick comment on this Baba Booey of an election season.
- A detailed look at how the Panama Papers megaleak came to pass.
- Breitbart may be practicing a Kostabi-ish approach to journalism.
- Xi Jinping’s alleged war on corruption is Mao married to modern tech.
- John Markoff argues that the Singularity isn’t really so near.
- The techno-optimism of Singularity University is analyzed.
- 3D printing may lead to a revolution of “distributed manufacturing.”
- As cars become rolling computers, police may be able to wrest controls.
- Getting humans and robots to cooperate in space will be a challenge.
- Economist Alex Tabarrok fielded a question about AI & the middle class.
- Moshe Y. Vardi suspects AI is going to continue disrupting the working class.
- Business’ adoption of AI will require recognizing, mapping and teaching.
- Paul Gilster offers a bold take on long-term space colonization.
- Getting humans and robots to cooperate in space will be a challenge.
- In 2002, Douglas Vakoch, SETI scientist trying to speak to ETs, was profiled.
- H.G. Wells believed utopias required corresponding dystopias.
- The Medium Is the Massage graphic designer, Quentin Fiore, turned 96.
- For the 2020 Olympics, Japan aims to introduce next-level maglev trains.
- Old Print Article: Olympic sports gain popularity in the U.S. (1896)
- Old Print Article: Outlaw Harry Tracy breaks out of prison. (1902)
- A brief note from 1841 about an extraordinary woman.
- A brief note from 1821 about baseball PEDs.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.