This week, Donald Trump revealed his plans for safeguarding American water parks during Summer 2016.
- On Robin Hanson’s brain-emulation idea: 2 new articles & a few questions.
- UNU, the hive-mind intelligence system, conducted an AMA about futurism.
- Jacque Fresco predicts revolution followed by computer-governed utopia.
- The Guardian profiled philosopher/Silicon Valley muse Nick Bostrom.
- Nick Bilton writes of Silicon Valley’s vast wealth and even greater hubris.
- Elon Musk, who hopes to create Martians, shares details with WaPo.
- Flying cars are silly. Larry Page is working on something else.
- Edward Mendelson thinks our gadgets reduce us to video-game characters.
- Big Auto faces more existential risks beyond driverless cars.
- A counterintuitive idea: Driverless may increase the need for public transit.
- Uber and Lyft want to not only destroy taxis but also each other.
- Liberland, a planned micronation, aims to be a green tax haven.
- A Paris bookstore is reinventing itself as a stockless, on-demand shop.
- Old Print Article: Mussolini is a “fascinating character.” (1925)
- Old Print Article: Russia dissects Vladimir Lenin’s brain. (1929)
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.