Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? | The New Yorker
newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinseyAs it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?
There Is No A.I.
newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-aiThere are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.
A Museum Security Expert on How to Protect Great Art - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/van-gogh-tomato-soup-national-gallery-london/671764/A museum-security expert admits that “it’s pretty darn hard to protect a painting from somebody throwing a can of soup at it.”
Moonlight towers: light pollution in the 1800s - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE
lowtechmagazine.com/2009/01/moonlight-towers-light-pollution-in-the-1800s.htmlAt the end of the 19th century, many towns and cities were lit up by powerful electrical lamps placed on towers up to 300 feet (90 metres) high. The arc lamp - the first electric light and the predecessor of Edison’s incandescent light bulb - was extremely bright and much more energy efficient than other lighting technologies from those times. The lamps were too strong for indoor use, but they were regarded as the future of municipal lighting. Especially in the United States, many ci...
The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.
Four-Woman Group That Fought U.K. Algorithms Steps Up for Tech-Worker Rights - WSJ
wsj.com/articles/four-woman-group-that-fought-u-k-algorithms-steps-up-for-tech-worker-rights-11621087200An advocacy group that successfully challenged the use of algorithms in U.K. immigration and education policy is preparing to take on Facebook and Uber Technologies over tech workers’ rights.
Internet Search Tips · Gwern.net
gwern.net/SearchFinally, you can always try to contact the author. This only occasionally works for the papers I have the hardest time with, since they tend to be old ones where the author is dead or unreachable—any author publishing a paper since 1990 will usually have been digitized somewhere—but it’s easy to try.
The Zoom Gaze — Real Life
reallifemag.com/the-zoom-gaze/Video conferencing offers an illusory sense of unilateral control over conversations
The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty | MIT Technology Review
technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013068/algorithms-create-a-poverty-trap-lawyers-fight-back/A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor from housing, jobs, and basic services.
How I Got My Attention Back — by Craig Mod
craigmod.com/essays/how_i_got_my_attention_back/There are a thousand beautiful ways to start the day that don’t begin with looking at your phone. And yet so few of us choose to do so. Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountable loops. A country trip off-grid helped me escape.