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Notes on technology in the 2020s
Will we end the Great Stagnation? Here are the technologies I'm watching in the next decade.
The Visual Linguist: From "learning to draw" to "acquiring a visual vocabulary"
The blog of Neil Cohn, PhD, exploring the structure and cognition of drawing, visual communication, and the visual language of comics.
Reflections on Gandhi | The Orwell Foundation
This material remains under copyright and is reproduced by kind permission of the Orwell Estate and Penguin Books. Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases. In Gandhi’s case the questions one feels... Read more »
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement. No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. For more than two decades, the third-party cookie has been the lynchpin in a shadowy, seedy, multi-billion dollar advertising-surveillance industry on the Web...
FLoC is coming — Here’s what we know so far
Search Engine Land is the leading industry source for daily, must-read news and in-depth analysis about search engine technology.
The Long Tail
Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.
America’s Covid Swab Supply Depends on Two Cousins Who Hate Each Other
The pandemic brought the business opportunity of a lifetime to Puritan Medical Products of Guilford, Maine. But even a $250 million infusion from the U.S. government has done little to quell an epic family feud.
The death of the newsfeed — Benedict Evans
What do we do now that there’s more in the newsfeed than we can possibly read? Can the algorithmic sample ever actually work, or do we swing back to 1:1 messaging? How do Stories rebundle that? And what happens to all the traffic that the newsfeed provides?
The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make
Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. How did this happen? And can we bring it back?
The Urban-Rural Divide | Edge.org
The 48 Laws of Power (Animated) - YouTube
THIS IS WATER! by David Foster Wallace - YouTube
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar BBC Interview 1955 - Exposin - YouTube
Michael Crichton - Wikipedia
michael crichton: why speculate? – Larvatus Prodeo
The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
Japanese economic takeoff after 1945
NFTs and a Thousand True Fans - Andreessen Horowitz
Weekly Bookmarks - Issue #2 | Revue
A beginner's guide to NFTs — Mirror
Paxman interviews Christopher Hitchens - Newsnight archives (2010) - YouTube
Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks - YouTube
Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation [The Knowledge Project Ep. #88]
The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
Incredible events at Browserling
The Hindu Temple as a Model of Fractal Cosmology – Forecasting Architecture with Recursive Instruction | Dataisnature
The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint - Guy Kawasaki
Nuts and Bolts: “Thought” Verbs | LitReactor
Weekly Bookmarks - Issue #1 | Revue