Links August 19-25 2018

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Friday Aug 24, 2018

Since electric vehicles spend most of their time at the owner's home and workplace, many employers are offering charging spots to keep workers happy.   usatoday.com


Thursday Aug 23, 2018

"It is somewhat ironic that the electric robocar might cause the vanishing job of full service gas station attendant to return."   ideas4brad.com

"Digital platforms allowed communities to gather and form in new ways, but they also dispersed existing communities, those that had watched the same TV news and read the same newspapers."   technologyreview.com


Wednesday Aug 22, 2018

"Algorithms alone can't meaningfully hold other algorithms accountable."   reallifemag.com


Tuesday Aug 21, 2018

The Netflix Series 13 Reasons Why has kids asking their parents for cassette players and tapes. One parent reports his kid is "fascinated with the b-side." Science teachers say the analog tech teaches kids fine motor skills and spacial reasoning.
Also "indie" rock bands are selling cassettes with j-card issuing an optional mp3 download link. The price point of a cassette is lower than a vinyl album.

It goes on and on. Adults in their early 20's like the cassette price point, they say cassettes are "personal" "cheap" and "just cool" and in the digital age, "you don't just want to have to the download, you want to have the actual physical thing. Because you get to physically have it, and that's a big thing." from 9news.com at youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldaLNqGa1_M


Cassettes seam really popular with the 19-early 20's crowd right now. Could be an accumulation layer in an age of rapid disruption.

Monday Aug 20, 2018

Sunday Aug 19, 2018

Investors Keep Giving Startups More Funding Than They Need:   inc.com

“Don’t build a light-rail system now. Please, please, please, please don’t,” said Frank Chen, a partner with the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. “We don’t understand the economics of self-driving cars because we haven’t experienced them yet. Let’s see how it plays out.”   seattletimes.com

"A new AAA survey finds 20% of Americans say their next vehicle will be an electric car. That's up from 15% in 2017, the first time that AAA asked the question."   usatoday.com

Readers absorb less on Kindle than on paper, study finds:   theguardian.com

"We must, in other words, find our way to “negative emissions,” extracting more carbon dioxide from the air than we contribute to it."   nytimes.com

Home-made stickers were able to confuse a driverless car.   indiatimes.com





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