This week, Trump’s most ardent supporters took a break from the campaign to take advantage of July 4th white sales.
- The great New Yorker writer Mark Singer talks his 1997 Trump profile.
- Russ Roberts & Kevin Kelly talk the latter’s new book, The Inevitable.
- Sociological salesman Alvin Toffler died. Read his obit + a few posts on him.
- Douglas Rushkoff talks corporatocracy, technology’s mixed blessing, etc.
- America’s perplexing war on information has intensified in the Digital Age.
- Enabled by technology, Edward Snowden is now a disembodied dissenter.
- Can machines cause mass unemployment? Maybe that’s not the right question.
- A work-free society wouldn’t necessarily succumb to ennui.
- Baidu’s Andrew Ng suggests AI might necessitate a new New Deal.
- Tech is removing bureaucracy–and jobs–from the legal system.
- The NYT business plan is changing again in this fraught media age.
- “Fully Automated Luxury Communism” is a possible economic future.
- An MIT algorithm binge-watches TV to learn human body language.
- Gay Talese’s book on a motel-owning voyeur is now even more troubling.
- Water economist David Zetland conducted a Reddit AMA about H2O.
- A tech-friendly Texas House of Worship 2.0 is disrupting Big Church.
- Old Print Article: Ben Purnell, Not An Immortal. (1927)
- Old Print Article: Jeannette Piccard’s Space Odyssey. (1934)
- A brief note from 1929 about a widower.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Ron Popeil, Andy Warhol, etc.