This made me laugh. https://bit.ly/2XJ2yIi
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This made me laugh: Planet AI used Midjourney to reimagine world leaders in their early youth. https://bit.ly/463mPZK
7-year-old: “how come when we blink we don’t even notice it?”
Me: “it’s kind of amazing, isn’t it? It’s just a reflex.”
7-year-old: “but who made it this way?”
Me: “it’s the way we evolved.”
7-year-old: “so since the Big Bang?”
Me: “not since then exactly, because lots of things had to happen before animals came.”
7-year-old: “the Big Bang doesn’t make any sense. How can there be something made out of nothing?”
Me: “yeah, it doesn’t make a ton of sense. But it’s the best explanation we have.”
7-year-old: “I’m going to build a time machine so I can go back and see if it really happened.”
Me: “that’s a great idea. But how will you build it?”
7-year-old: “I also could just order one from Amazon?”
Me: “do you think they have them?”
7-year-old: “maybe, but there’s a problem. A time machine is something and at the Big Bang there was nothing. So it would probably break.”
Me: “yeah, that wouldn’t be good.”
7-year-old: “so I have to order two from Amazon.”
Me: “it’s kind of amazing, isn’t it? It’s just a reflex.”
7-year-old: “but who made it this way?”
Me: “it’s the way we evolved.”
7-year-old: “so since the Big Bang?”
Me: “not since then exactly, because lots of things had to happen before animals came.”
7-year-old: “the Big Bang doesn’t make any sense. How can there be something made out of nothing?”
Me: “yeah, it doesn’t make a ton of sense. But it’s the best explanation we have.”
7-year-old: “I’m going to build a time machine so I can go back and see if it really happened.”
Me: “that’s a great idea. But how will you build it?”
7-year-old: “I also could just order one from Amazon?”
Me: “do you think they have them?”
7-year-old: “maybe, but there’s a problem. A time machine is something and at the Big Bang there was nothing. So it would probably break.”
Me: “yeah, that wouldn’t be good.”
7-year-old: “so I have to order two from Amazon.”
Love this cover of the New Yorker's tech issue from last fall, which just won the ASME for the best business and technology cover. https://lnkd.in/gA__UGD
I love this. Dakd Jung's audio-visualizer prototype turns music into dancing orbs via ferrofluid, a magnetic liquid suspended in water that responds to audio frequency. https://bit.ly/3EqdsGO
Today is my last day at WIRED and Condé Nast. It's been an extraordinary run with a team that's been absolutely brilliant, kind, and dedicated to all the right things. Here is the note that I sent to the entire staff to say goodbye today.
The most interesting thing in tech: Facebook is changing its core algorithm to be more like TikTok. This is actually an indication that the way information on the internet is organized is changing in interesting ways. And it's also an indication that Facebook is really, truly now getting out of the business of distributing news. #mostinterestingthingintech
No, the vaccinated are not just as likely to spread Covid as the unvaccinated. They are much less likely to become infected, and, if infected, they are contagious for much less time. Please pass this article to anyone who is still stuck on that very wrong talking point.
The most interesting thing in tech: a brief conversation with one of the founders of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, about whether machines can replicate intelligence and make us immortal.
America: Where the high-schoolers act like leaders, and the leaders act like they're in high school.
Arnold: I have always admired Russia and Russians. Now I want to tell my Russian friends that their lives, their limbs, and their futures are being sacrificed for a senseless war.
The most interesting thing in tech: a new paper from the NBER suggests that bringing Starbucks coffee shops to communities that don’t have them increases entrepreneurship. If people have spaces where they can sit and talk to each other, they come up with good ideas and start new companies. The finding doesn’t hold for bars, or coffee shops that don’t have places to sit. It’s a good reminder for city planners and business leaders: build communities where people can share ideas together and good things will happen.
