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"call on governments to use the data-driven management techniques common in the private sector to find out how best to respond to the employment disruption that is coming. These include using "A/B" testing of alternative options to do small trials of new social policies designed to counteract the impact of automation, before expanding them to entire populations."

This is an interesting point of view which reminds me of the Solid-discussion we had. Solid allows the user to control her data and to have an overview of personal data. It also allows seamless integration of many information types and as such it can be used to streamline information at companies and institutions. So Solid could just as well be used to connect seamlessly many types of information about you and me. Maybe we could still consult that information in readable-but-not-writable form, but it would be of even bigger interest to surveillance professionals from states and private companies who probably would have to means to get this information in a readable and writable form.

"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."

"The most unexpected part of the Microsoft Ignite keynote was the panel discussion on Quantum Computing and the potential role for Microsoft to empower this next revolution in computing with a new programming language and qubit simulator that runs on Azure later this year. While Quantum Computing efforts are likely to be immaterial to the forecast over the next three-to-five years, the amount of airtime that Quantum Computing received at the opening keynote at Ignite showcases the longer-term aspirations for Microsoft to continue pushing the envelope of technology innovation, with an emphasis on mixed reality, AI, and quantum computing."

'we'll begin to unpack the 10-year vision of a contextually-aware, AI-powered interface for augmented reality (AR) glasses that can use the information you choose to share, to infer what you want to do, when you want to do it'

Here you'll find people, processes, and tools to support your publishing efforts. You can use this platform to: start an open textbook project give and receive guidance on publishing open textbooks post and respond to calls for contributors, and connect with global communities that are changing the world through Open Education. We are making books to build communities, and building communities to make books. @JoeCorneli

It's a foregone conclusion that everybody in the world will be a gamer someday. There are only a billion active gamers today. Someday there will be 7 billion, 8 billion active gamers. The growth opportunity for gaming is still well ahead of us. Gaming is the only entertainment that can be any entertainment. You and I both know that when the metaverse [arrives], we're going to spend a lot more time in game worlds, not just to game, but just to hang out, to be with people, to interact with people. The gaming market has a great future ahead of it.

"The Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory (TRCC) networks and builds capacity for community resilience leaders working at the regional and translocal scale in the USA. We bring together diverse stakeholders to collaborate and allocate resources together, to share best practices and build organization capacity. Through relationships and trust, we form collaborative projects to build movement capacity. Some of the organizations we bring together include Art of Hosting, BayLocalize, Bioneers, New Economy Coalition, Post Carbon Institute, Shareable, Transition US and more. "

Title: Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door Excerpt: As the Facebook CEO travels across the US to 'learn about people's hopes and challenges', the cafeteria workers at his company struggle to make en…

Title: Start Your Hedging: LedgerX to Begin Trading Cryptocurrency Derivatives Excerpt: For the first time ever, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has given permission to a private company to exchange and clear any number of crypt…

Title: Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder Excerpt: The Roomba is generally regarded as a cute little robot friend that no one but dogs would consider to be a potential menace. But for the last couple of years, …

Title: How Coders Hacked Back to 'Rescue' $208 Million in Ethereum Excerpt: On Wednesday, an anonymous hacker (or hackers) stole $32 million worth of ethereum's cryptocurrency, ether, from three multi-signature wallets thanks to a vulnerability in t…

Les Traceurs is a game that allows you to collaboratively produce the Story of an event (be it a meeting, a conference, a workshop, a festival, a web-festival, etc...), almost live, and to disseminate it to the relevant federations and communities across the Internets.

Howard Rheingold: "Now that so many are forced to use online media to communicate, let's use this opportunity to create many smaller virtual communities and social networks outside the enclosed world of Facebook."

I find myself recommending this article in multiple situations and settings. It is on almost every syllabus I create regardless of the stated intent of the course. It is an excellent entry point into systems thinking and a cribsheet that anyone hoping to improve organizations and systems ought to have handy

Individuals and organizations use this environment to set in motion and contribute to crowd-based economic processes. They create or contribute to open and collaborative projects, they crowdsource resources and harness collective intelligence.

Wiki.js is a Javascript-based wiki you can run on your computer or (better) in the cloud. It is open source and based on Node. It uses any of a number of database engines and runs on most platforms. There are modules available that allow you to run analytics, use social authentication, and choose the content editor you wish to use, and sync and backup your content to a number of storage services.

Roam and a whole universe of similar technologies help you to organize your thought, to make smarter notes and ultimately to build an external brain.

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about how to do the most good in the world. They discuss the "effective altruism" movement, choosing causes to support, the apparent tension between wealth and altruism, how best to think about generosity over the course of one's lifetime, and other topics.

Title: A new book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising. Excerpt: By now, the looming dangers of climate change are clear to anyone who's been paying attention, covered extensively in both academic literature and …