This week, Donald Trump stood on the balcony of a luxury NYC building and finally released his tax returns to a curious public.
- Donald Trump’s political ascent has nothing to do with policy or ideology.
- Wesley Morris analyzes the word “presidential” in this bumfight election year.
- Our algorithmic age has crashed into a Baba Booey of an election season.
- In 1969, National Geographic wrote of transportation’s autonomous future.
- Should we be trying to create more Einsteins with genetic engineering?
- Nouveau science fiction is less predictive than eerily familiar.
- Emilio D’Alessandro speaks of his long odyssey with Stanley Kubrick.
- Manu Saadia thinks we may achieve Star Trek post-scarcity.
- Raves about Magic Leap VR remind me of of Eco’s hyperreality essay.
- Deep Learning will likely turn programmers into dog trainers.
- The new Don DeLillo meditates on a-mortality and apocalypse.
- Deep Learning will likely turn programmers into dog trainers.
- Authors on Bill Gates’ reading list: Yuval Harari, Steven Pinker, etc.
- Even North Korea has a 1% in this era of dazzling wealth inequality.
- Facebook may actually be less biased than traditional media.
- Uber aims to be driverless, so it’s not a panacea for unemployment.
- Babies born in the West today may routinely live to be 105.
- Old Print Article: A “thinking machine” creates movie ideas. (1921)
- A brief note from 1952 about a morbid obsession.
- A brief note from 1929 about robot fireflies.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Keir Dullea, Richard Pryor, etc.