This week, Donald Trump answered Khizr Khan’s charges that the GOP nominee hadn’t made any sacrifices for America, saying he’s repeatedly seen action in bunkers.
- It takes a village to enable a Fascist, and Julian Assange joined Team Trump.
- For any Kremlin interference, Donald Trump’s odious rise was made in America.
- Electing Trump, Mussolini with moobs, would seriously alter the U.S. character.
- The “prosperity gospel” movement had a moment at the RNC.
- Ray Kurzweil thinks better tools are making the world seem worse than it is.
- Calum Chace conducted an AMA about The Economic Singularity.
- China’s is reportedly making progress in robotizing its factories.
- The Economist explains why Cleveland, Silicon Valley 1.0, foundered.
- Paddy Chayefsky thought our best-case future was globalized technocracy.
- For better or worse, the Maasai tribe is connected to the Internet.
- Marshall McLuhan did NOT want to live in a Global Village.
- Pokémon Go is explained to Werner Herzog. Couldn’t have gone better.
- Understanding consciousness has proved elusive to humans and AI alike.
- Brain chips may soon make us smarter but perhaps not morally superior.
- Smartphones are essentially slot machines in our pockets.
- Rob Rhinehart, Soylent beverage creator, is living off the grid in L.A.
- The VCR, which helped the masses become programmers, is no more.
- Miss Cleo, the Ron Popeil of psychic powers, just died
- Old Print Article: Charles R. Knight brings prehistoric creatures to life. (1927)
- A brief note from 1856 about camels delivering mail in America.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Electronic baseball umps, Jerry Stahl.