This week, Halloween brought us some scary faces. But next week may present us with the scariest face of all.
- Old Print Articles: Fellow gamblers murder Black Sox Scandal mobster Arnold Rothstein (1928) + Sergei Eisenstein leaves Hollywood in a huff (1932) + Blindfolded driver and his guide dog drive cross country (1928).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Our small daughter is outwitting us + Murder will cost you extra + A new family activity for the Palins.
- An Uber driver reveals the company’s scorched-earth policies. Uber responds.
- In support on The Innovators, Walter Isaacson did a Reddit AMA.
- Buzz Aldrin wants Mars astronauts to stay there for a long time.
- Mars colonies will require forming new governments.
- Helper robots are beginning to staff department stores and hotels.
- Cloud robotics holds promise for greatness and destruction.
- Ryan Avent of the Economist did an AMA about technological disruption.
- Andrew McAfee analyzes what may be the new tech monopolies.
- Brad Templeton responds to the “disappointment” of driverless cars.
- In just ten years, autonomous vehicles have made great lengths.
- A profile of Jared Diamond, that lightning-rod academic.
- Julian Assange believes Google is sort of a shadow government.
- Kevin Kelly explains that search has never been Google’s mission.
- Larry Page thinks falling consumer prices will make up disruption.
- Google is working on something akin to a Star Trek tricorder.
- Google’s distance from the real world may be self-defeating.
- The surveillance state is something we’ve given our assent.
- U.S.-Israeli relations have further deteriorated.
- Not even WWIII or a pandemic would really slow down population growth.
- Spiegel interviewed an Islamic State recruiter.
- Only authoritarian regimes want to host the costly Olympics.
- In the 1970s, Marshall McLuhan decided that newsprint was obsolete.
- Joan Quigley, astrologer to the Reagan White House, passes away.
- Elon Musk tries to convince Americans to go to Mars.
- Evgeny Morozov thinks new technologies have compromised capitalism.
- Like it or not, “sheer” airplane fuselages may be the future.
- An air-cleaning building is proposed for China.
- It’s becoming more possible to live without the power grid.
- In the 1770s, Charles Blagden experimented with extreme heat.
- A brief note from 1896 about a monkey suicide.
- A brief note from 1910 about extra bologna.
- A brief note from 1946 about a blood donor.
- A brief note from 1953 about a strange cure.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.