This week, President Trump had to be concerned when another American with similar views began to steal attention from him.
- Old Print Articles: Budapest boasts a successful telephone-newspaper (1902) + The Widow Houdini fails to conjure her husband (1936/47).
- Donald Trump will go away, but the angry mob will remain.
- The 2 worst parts about David Brooks’ op-ed about Ta-Nehisi Coates.
- A.O. Scott visits Comic-Con, America’s soul in some ways.
- Being an “Instagram comedian” doesn’t necessarily mean you’re funny.
- 10 things that happened since Chuck Todd said Obama was “over.”
- Spiegel asks Julian Assange about the “digital colonization of the world.”
- Tim Harford considers how quickly ideas spread now.
- Reid Hoffman thinks through the future of networked cars.
- Cloning science has made a serious impression in the sport of polo.
- Making machines that are ethical will be a grand challenge.
- Vivek Wadhwa believes tech progress will require political solutions.
- Despite what Gov. Cuomo says, Uber is not good for Labor.
- Hotel jobs may soon be shifted from humans to AI.
- Technological change, as well as social change, may be accelerating.
- The meaning of the word “computer” will continue to change.
- China may be industrialization’s final success story.
- Transforming Beijing into a city of 130 million isn’t easy.
- Kevin Kelly expects homes and cities to look the same in 1,000 years.
- John Markoff looks at the history of AI and Intelligence Augmentation.
- In 1970, Shakey the robot was considered the “first electronic person.”
- If we do discover alien life in space, then what?
- The Internet of Things will bring with it serious security concerns.
- Ai Weiwei considers the intersection of technology and art.
- E.L. Doctorow was a literary great and commercial success.
- A brief note from 1911 about President Taft.
- A brief note from 1924 about a fly farmer.
- A brief note from 1911 about a gigantic flea.
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