A collection of some of the best links from around the web, manually curated.
Artificial Intelligence is finally picking up pace – and will force us to redefine what it means to be human.
«It’s bigger than color. It’s bigger than sound. It’s the audience literally inhabiting the narrative.» After reading this piece, I can’t wait to be in a virtual reality movie. Forget about 3D, that was just a superficial novelty. Virtual reality goes to the core of cinematic storytelling. «You can’t cut. You can’t fade. You can’t move the camera. You can’t pull focus. What you can do is create an intriguing hybrid of Brechtian in-the-round theatrical stuff and game design.»
A mother’s «love letter to a machine». Nice story of an autistic boy who has found a friend in Siri (yes, that Siri in your iPhone).
Free will — its existence or absence — has been a matter of heated debate for philosophers and neuroscientists for decades. Is free will, after all, a capacity of the brain that people can lose — and that can be given back to them by means of implants?
The Shinkansen, Japan’s bullet train, has had an anniversary this week. This is a very interesting piece on how the high-speed train has transformed the country and especially Tokio (also, an astonishing bit of trivia: It runs 323 times between Tokio and Osaka — every day!).
Consider this: There are currently 291 rapidly expanding emerging cities with populations of 1–10 million. By 2050, urban population worldwide is expected to rise by another 2.5 billion. Then have a look at this juxtaposition. A report on how important the development in emerging cities is for our future.
Automation of human work will be one of the defining issues of the coming ten, twenty years. We’ve entered a phase where robots not only replace physical work previously done by humans, but brain work. This brief 15 minute explainer video by CGP Grey does a great job putting the development in historical perspective – and points out why hardly anyone’s job will be safe. Better watch it now before a robot does it for you.
Quite likely the best thing I’ve read all year on the state of the internet today and the challenges it faces. «I’m tired of being scared of what the web is going go look like tomorrow. […] How do we change this industry to make it wonderful again? How do we build an Internet we’re not ashamed of?»
In the future, Google might send you an alert if it detects cancer in your body.
Make sense of what’s happening, and imagine what could be.
Carefully curated recommendations on what to read, watch and listen to. For nerds and changemakers who love when something makes them go «Huh, I never thought of it this way!».Undecided? Learn more | Peek inside
Immerse yourself in a particular topic, with some of the best links from around the web, handpicked.
39 recommended links
38 recommended links
20 recommended links
13 recommended links
26 recommended links
34 recommended links
16 recommended links
