September 29, 2016
September 29, 2016
September 29, 2016
Algorithms know what you’re going to do before you do
Take a gander down this list of 22 Ways Algorithms Know How You’ll Behave Before You Do and you’ll see that a future not unlike that of Tom Cruise’s in Minority Report isn’t too far fetched. As ERIC SIEGEL writes: Prediction as a capability is booming. It reinvents industries and runs the...
September 29, 2016
Tech’s latest cash cow
Last night at about 8:30PM my wife’s iPhone suddenly starts pinging. She got a text message. Then another and another. I think in the end she received something like 25 text messages in the space of about 30 minutes. For some people, this might be normal. But for my wife,...
September 29, 2016
Understanding other places
“One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.” So wrote Southern novelist Eudora Welty in her essay “Place in Fiction,” and it’s a concept well worth thinking about in an era in which communities and countries feel paradoxically fractured and all-encompassing, in which people feel torn apart and thrown together, all...