Edition-126 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About Douglas Engelbart’s 1968 first public demonstration of word processing, text messaging, and a weird little device dubbed a “mouse.” https://mashable.com/article/mother-of-all-demos-douglas-engelbart-50-years/
• About fixing surveillance with sousveillance, and why personal data stores never will work: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2018/12/we-cant-own-information.html
• About a mathematician looking at the everyday world with the eyes of a child: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-physics-surprises-20181127/
• About artists merging with engineers and the relationship between science and art (video): https://vimeo.com/228557512
• About 486,713 ways to get to Rome: awesome visualisation project: http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/an-interactive-map-shows-just-how-many-roads-actually-lead-to-rome.html

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Edition-125 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About Intimacy. This is very good. The internet’s quintessential, paradoxical message is “Only Connect.”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/crisis-intimacy-age-digital-connectivity/
• About cyberwars: you are the territory. Excellent introduction to the so called “warm” wars going on at this very right moment: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/the-digital-maginot-line/
• About spacial computing by Robert Scobble: good intro and good resources and embedded links: https://scobleizer.blog/2018/11/26/spatial-computing-bigger-than-magic-leap/
• About the end of trust. Long (300+ page PDF) on what’s wrong about online trust and how to fix it: https://www.eff.org/document/end-trust-0
• About some recommendations to Zuck to make “good” software that meets users’ needs: https://medium.com/what-to-build/dear-zuck-fd25ecb1aa5a

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Edition-124 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About Joi Ito’s (Director MIT Media Lab) PHD dissertation on change. Your must read this week: https://www.practiceofchange.org/
• About best practices on platforms: Steve Yegge’s comparison of Google and Amazon platforms: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
• About better understanding reality through art, by the director of the V&A: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/nov/18/tristram-hunt-museums-v-and-a-interview-fake-news-labour?CMP=share_btn_tw
• About the human edge over AI: creativity and compassion: https://qz.com/1383648/automation-will-remind-us-that-we-are-not-defined-by-what-we-do/
• About your Arch-Nemesis by the super smart Eric Weinstein (MD at Thiel Capital) – Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZN-9RlGfRg

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Edition-123 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About bewildered machines and scientists and artists elevating each other: http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/we-are-all-bewildered-machines
• About critical freshness: http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-signal-network/
• About the politicising of the SWIFT payments system: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/11/how-trumps-game-of-chicken-with-iran-could-weaken-the-dollars-role-as-the-worlds-currency.html
• About the use of this connectivity still being only just the beginning. Great talk by Ben Evens from Andreessen Horowitz: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/11/16/the-end-of-the-beginning
• About the famous 1962 quote by Arthur C. Clarke and some contemporary reflections on it: http://lab.cccb.org/en/arthur-c-clarke-any-sufficiently-advanced-technology-is-indistinguishable-from-magic/

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Edition-122 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the delusion of decentralization: https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168?gi=c007f1084f75
• About using Theory-U to address the main conflict between open and closed, not between left and right: https://medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/axial-shift-the-decline-of-trump-the-rise-of-the-greens-and-the-new-coordinates-of-societal-b0bde2613a9e
• About Luc Tuymans’ Sanguine exhibition: using masterpieces to create conversations across time about western image making, propaganda and globalism: https://observer.com/2018/11/uc-tuymans-predicts-trumps-reelection-art-revenge/
• About China’s next-generation power lines: a clean-power play or a global power move? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612390/chinas-giant-transmission-grid-could-be-the-key-to-cutting-climate-emissions/
• About designing for a longer now, a bigger here, and a wider we. Brian Eno’s approach to producing music, through simple, open systems, should be adopted for the design of our towns and cities: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/11/09/brian-eno-architecture-planning-finn-williams-opinion-column/

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Edition-121 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About future bedrock of strategy in the organisation. The beach-head of challenge called Spend Control. Priceless post by @swardley: https://medium.com/@swardley/rebooting-gds-96b1595096fa
• About nested planetary spheres and megastructures. Future or extraterrestrial civilizations could create megastructures the size of a solar system: https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/are-we-living-inside-a-matrioshka-brain-how-advanced-civilizations-could-reshape-reality
• About Blockchain company ConsenSys buying Planetary Resources; I love the bold planetary thinking about smart contract functionality as a natural solution for private-ordering and commerce in space: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/11/blockchain-company-consensys-buys-planetary-resources.html
• About “smell-scapes” and re-creating realities through smell. Fascinating! https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/26/on-the-nose-sissel-tolaas-detroit-exhibition/
• About the strange (military? money laundering? other?) activities on a mysterious Finnish Island. Alienating. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/world/europe/sakkiluoto-finland-russian-military.html

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Edition-120 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About product cycles of nine hours: https://innovator.news/interview-of-the-week-pablos-holman-7f5122149c62
• About the coming explosion of companies: https://medium.com/@opencorporates/fireflies-and-algorithms-the-coming-explosion-of-companies-9d53cdb8738f
• About 50 questions to help you re-imagine the future: https://www.boardofinnovation.com/staff-picks/what-if-questions-reimagine-the-future/
• About the ReWire (art) festival and how it reveals deeper trends (highlights video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=e6MDeofYeCY
• About architecture in IT but with so many wonderful metaphors to the real thing: https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/how-architecture-evolves-into-strategy

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Edition-119 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About nine sci-fi subgenres for understanding what’s to come: https://howwegettonext.com/exploring-the-future-without-cyberpunks-neon-and-noir-8e23562819e3
• About vulnerability in a Japanese bathhouse: https://therumpus.net/2018/10/naked-in-japan/
• About a tale befitting the power and tragedy of the age of climate change: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wj9k3n/one-thousand-cranes
• About speculative fiction, embodied futures, and the material/architectural dimensions of world-building: https://points.datasociety.net/future-perfect-on-the-uses-abuses-and-paradoxes-of-speculative-futures-56f734df7ba4
• About the dead of subcultures by geeks, mops, and sociopaths: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

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