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In this newsletter you'll find interesting stuff about the Zoom ecosystem.

The competition is increasing, video is becoming ever more important

In the context of one of the Whiplash-rules

interesting for the diglife-folks.

I still have to read this one. Seems interesting, the political background of bitcoin. Not necessarily something which will make you happy.

"As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines 'the useless class' and a new quest for purpose"

Brilliant find Roland, will some help the rest of us to participate here, or have they done so already and I missed it? Thanks again.

Mary Meeker's must-read slides about the state of the internet

A lot of frivolous things were to be seen at the F8 Deverloper's Conference, but behind the fun there is a tech revolution going on which will generate many other applications.

Facebook seems to be aware of the ethical challenges of the braincomputer interface.

"To continue advances in a Moore's Law Plus world requires co-engineering and a cooperative approach across the semiconductor industry with different manufacturers, working with academia, and open standards to create an easy-to-program environment. That is why I'm confident companies will be able to add more transistors, and manage the cost curve."

"He believes that although technology can objectively decrease risk of a particular kind or make us feel less vulnerable in particular way, any technology that decreases some kind of risk also introduces new risks, thereby altering the ways in which we are at risk and experience vulnerability. Thus, rather than think of the human-technology dialectic as a process that makes humans less vulnerable, it is better conceptualized, he believes, as a process of transformation--a process that transforms human vulnerability."

Let's hack this

I tried annotating with Diigo... but was just immediately told that I can't because it's a premium feature... Hypothesis works though... SO I started annotating within the context of our group.

Does everyone get notified when I add a comment here? Or just you Ted?

imagine the future scenario of government mandated internet shutdowns

Article by Tristan Harris, the man who launched the Humane Technology project

Virtual communities can make the world a better place. or they can manipulate elections by spreading hate messages en conspiracy theories. Or they can manipulate the stock markets in a so-called anti-establishment frenzy, which is no more that a thin veil hiding resentment, hate and greed. Revolutions are not always pretty to look at.

Games saving humanity