This week, the NYPD decided to dig up Arthur Ashe’s grave, saying he was acting “suspiciously.”
- Old Print Articles: Peeking inside Hitler’s 16,000-volume library (1942) + H.G. Wells opposes teaching history (1937).
- 3 Classic Videos: Jimmy Carter (1974), Salvador Dali (1973), Peter Sellers (1964).
- 3 Classic Videos: Paddy Chayefsky (1969), Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick (1965), Preston Tucker (1948).
- Dawn Field thinks about a time of “perfect genetic knowledge.”
- Stephen Hsu foresees a coevolution of humans and machines.
- Kim Stanley Robinson thinks about humans surviving the Anthropocene.
- Lee Billings sees Stanislaw Lem as a Cassandra of our technological age.
- Tom Carson, a Joan Didion skeptic, considers the new bio about her.
- The Economist Q&A with Donald Trump should have been much better.
- Michael Moore believes American exceptionalism will be the end of us.
- A piecemeal economy, if pervasive, will need fresh answers.
- Education and basic income may mitigate technological unemployment.
- China’s automation revolution is probably necessary but will be painful.
- Automated writing has entered the newsroom and that’s complicated.
- Hitachi has developed software that acts as a “decision engine.”
- Most indicators tell us we truly are past peak-auto.
- Apple, hoping to define a future, is betting on transportation and AI.
- Alex Gibney discusses two storytellers: Steve Jobs and L. Ron Hubbard.
- Steve Jobs director Danny Boyle talks about Silicon Valley.
- Slavoj Žižek writes of the use of quasi-slavery in today’s capitalism.
- Nostalgia for NYC’s bad old days stems from its middle-class apocalypse.
- Elon Musk believes VR will make us more-sedentary beings.
- Agreeing on international drone regulations won’t be easy.
- The Four Seasons has fallen and so may proprietor Julian Niccolini.
- Chef Andrew Zimmern discusses the fuzzy future of food.
- A brief note from 1934 about forbidden handshakes.
- A brief note from 1911 about an upset stomach.
- A brief note from 1933 about political theatre.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.