Immaginate di voler salvare 200mila dischi di gommalacca, i vecchi 78 giri, pubblicati tra la fine dell’Ottocento e l’inizio del Novecento. È quel che vuol fare Archive.org, una associazione californiana che già gestisce la fotocopiatrice e macchina del tempo del web, e molte altre cose. Alla fine saranno solo loro a preservare la nostra storia?
Money quote: ““We’re trying to make sure the physical object is saved, as well as the digital, because we don’t know which will last longer,” says B. George, the sound collections curator at the Internet Archive. “When information disappears digitally, it’s gone forever.” If you’ve ever had a hard drive crash, you know this all too well. Storing and preserving the physical media behind all of that information—if it exists—is one way to future-proof the archive. We may someday lose the ability to digitally play back certain file formats (though the Archive is working on that, too), but we’ll always be able to cobble together a machine with a needle and a horn that can play a record, if you can keep that record in good shape.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/internet-archive-78-records-phonograph
Money quote: ““We’re trying to make sure the physical object is saved, as well as the digital, because we don’t know which will last longer,” says B. George, the sound collections curator at the Internet Archive. “When information disappears digitally, it’s gone forever.” If you’ve ever had a hard drive crash, you know this all too well. Storing and preserving the physical media behind all of that information—if it exists—is one way to future-proof the archive. We may someday lose the ability to digitally play back certain file formats (though the Archive is working on that, too), but we’ll always be able to cobble together a machine with a needle and a horn that can play a record, if you can keep that record in good shape.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/internet-archive-78-records-phonograph
Atlas Obscura
A Wayback Machine for Early 20th Century Tunes
The Internet Archive has a surprisingly deep collection of records made of insect secretions.
Quando ho visitato la fabbrica dei widebody di Boeing a Everett, vicino Seattle, uno dei punti chiave erano gli uffici con vista sui giganteschi hangar in cui vengono costruiti gli aerei. Questa nanetto zen del management ricorda che non sempre la vicinanza è positiva
Money quote: “Imagine what it must be like to be that guy, and to have a Corporate Vice President call you and say, "Your plane is late." And then to have to spend time explaining why the plane is late, time that you should be spending finishing an airplane that is late.”
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100705-00/?p=13503
Money quote: “Imagine what it must be like to be that guy, and to have a Corporate Vice President call you and say, "Your plane is late." And then to have to spend time explaining why the plane is late, time that you should be spending finishing an airplane that is late.”
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100705-00/?p=13503
The Old New Thing
One small silver lining of moving Boeing headquarters to Chicago
In 2001, Boeing moved their corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago. This resulted in much wailing and consternation in Seattle, where Boeing had been since its founding in 1915. But every cloud has a silver lining. Seattle is the home of Boeing’s…
La app con il video di Amazon per la Apple Tv pare arrivi questa estate
https://www.recode.net/2017/5/5/15552954/amazon-video-apple-tv-app-jeff-bezos-tim-cook
https://www.recode.net/2017/5/5/15552954/amazon-video-apple-tv-app-jeff-bezos-tim-cook
Recode
It looks like Amazon’s Video app is finally coming to Apple TV this summer
Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook bury the hatchet.
È la vera strana coppia del romanzo d'azione: Bill Clinton teams e James Patterson scriveranno un thriller ambientato ovviamente alla Casa Bianca. (Come se non bastasse l'attuale presidenza).
Non vorrei essere nei panni del plotone di ghost writer che verranno presi per la bisogna.
Money quote: "
In one of the most unexpected literary collaborations to date, former US president Bill Clinton is to publish a novel with bestselling crime writer James Patterson. Titled The President Is Missing, the novel is being billed as a “unique amalgam of intrigue, suspense and behind-the-scenes global drama from the highest corridors of power”."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/08/bill-clinton-teams-with-james-patterson-to-write-white-house-thriller
Non vorrei essere nei panni del plotone di ghost writer che verranno presi per la bisogna.
Money quote: "
In one of the most unexpected literary collaborations to date, former US president Bill Clinton is to publish a novel with bestselling crime writer James Patterson. Titled The President Is Missing, the novel is being billed as a “unique amalgam of intrigue, suspense and behind-the-scenes global drama from the highest corridors of power”."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/08/bill-clinton-teams-with-james-patterson-to-write-white-house-thriller
the Guardian
Bill Clinton teams with James Patterson to write White House thriller
The President Is Missing will see the former US leader make his prose fiction debut in collaboration with his golf partner the crime writing mega-seller
Emmanuel Macron ha vinto. Parliamo di come, però, perché è importante.
Money quote: "A lot will be now written about the operations of a winning campaign that in many ways was inspired by the playbook of Barack Obama.
But, first and foremost, Macron’s extraordinary path to victory is the story of a candidate that chose to be bold – and to break, on his way to power, many of the conventional rules that have defined the European politics of late."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/6-ways-emmanuel-macron-rewrote-the-playbook-of-european
Money quote: "A lot will be now written about the operations of a winning campaign that in many ways was inspired by the playbook of Barack Obama.
But, first and foremost, Macron’s extraordinary path to victory is the story of a candidate that chose to be bold – and to break, on his way to power, many of the conventional rules that have defined the European politics of late."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/6-ways-emmanuel-macron-rewrote-the-playbook-of-european
BuzzFeed
6 Ways Emmanuel Macron Rewrote The Script Of European Politics
France's new president – its youngest ever – got where he is by breaking with the conventions that have recently defined politics in Europe.
Il prossimo kolossal che racconta storie di disastri globali potrebbe parlare dei virus e batteri vecchi di millenni ritornati in vita dopo essere stati congelati sotto il permafrost che il riscaldamento globale sta facendo fuori.
Oppure potremmo scoprirlo guardando il telegiornale.
Money quote: "Frozen permafrost soil is the perfect place for bacteria to remain alive for very long periods of time, perhaps as long as a million years. That means melting ice could potentially open a Pandora's box of diseases"
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up
Oppure potremmo scoprirlo guardando il telegiornale.
Money quote: "Frozen permafrost soil is the perfect place for bacteria to remain alive for very long periods of time, perhaps as long as a million years. That means melting ice could potentially open a Pandora's box of diseases"
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up
BBC
BBC One - Planet Earth II
How animals meet the challenges of surviving in the most iconic habitats on earth.
Per non morire di terrore stiamo accarezzando l’idea della perdita del lavoro a livello di società a causa delle macchine. La stessa cosa, ma in un mondo diverso, accadde con la seconda rivoluzione industriale. Gli angoli da cui approcciare l'attuale problema sono molti. Questo del Guardian è interessante ma vorrei prima notare come nessuno ancora guardi a Star Trek, serie di telefilm e film costruiti dagli anni Sessanta sull’idea di un mondo/galassia dell’abbondanza dove non si deve più lavorare per vivere ma di cose da fare ce ne sono decisamente molte.
Il Guardian ha varie idee, invece, ma questa in particolare la direi abbastanza sovversiva. Tuttavia è decisamente non banale. Anzi, "mucho interessante".
Money quote: “The crucial problem isn’t creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms. Consequently, by 2050 a new class of people might emerge – the useless class. People who are not just unemployed, but unemployable.
One answer might be computer games. Economically redundant people might spend increasing amounts of time within 3D virtual reality worlds, which would provide them with far more excitement and emotional engagement than the “real world” outside. This, in fact, is a very old solution. For thousands of years, billions of people have found meaning in playing virtual reality games. In the past, we have called these virtual reality games “religions”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/08/virtual-reality-religion-robots-sapiens-book
Il Guardian ha varie idee, invece, ma questa in particolare la direi abbastanza sovversiva. Tuttavia è decisamente non banale. Anzi, "mucho interessante".
Money quote: “The crucial problem isn’t creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms. Consequently, by 2050 a new class of people might emerge – the useless class. People who are not just unemployed, but unemployable.
One answer might be computer games. Economically redundant people might spend increasing amounts of time within 3D virtual reality worlds, which would provide them with far more excitement and emotional engagement than the “real world” outside. This, in fact, is a very old solution. For thousands of years, billions of people have found meaning in playing virtual reality games. In the past, we have called these virtual reality games “religions”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/08/virtual-reality-religion-robots-sapiens-book
the Guardian
The meaning of life in a world without work
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
BART è la metropolitana di San Francisco e Oakland. L'altro giorno un gruppo di alcune decine di giovani - da noi si direbbe un branco, anzi un super-branco - ha fatto un blitz e derubato svariati cittadini prima che la polizia riuscisse anche solo ad accorgersene. Inquietante.
Money quote: "The incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Witnesses told police that 40 to 60 juveniles flooded the station, jumped the fare gates and rushed to the second-story train platform. Some of the robbers apparently held open the doors of a Dublin-bound train car while others streamed inside, confronting and robbing and in some cases beating riders."
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-takeover-robbery-50-to-60-teens-swarm-11094745.php
Money quote: "The incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Witnesses told police that 40 to 60 juveniles flooded the station, jumped the fare gates and rushed to the second-story train platform. Some of the robbers apparently held open the doors of a Dublin-bound train car while others streamed inside, confronting and robbing and in some cases beating riders."
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-takeover-robbery-50-to-60-teens-swarm-11094745.php
SFGATE
BART takeover robbery: 40 to 60 teens swarm train, hold up riders
BART police are beefing up patrols at Oakland stations after dozens of juveniles...
La gentile capacità di Amazon nel gestire la sua immagine e le relazioni con la stampa
Money quote: "Even apparently negative stories, for example about how hard the workers are driven, benefit Amazon, much like a mobster's reputation: 'don't try competing with these guys'. Hence, one could suggest that even if a journalist sets out to make Amazon look bad, the result is generally something that looks and feels negative but still actually helps the company"
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/1/1/amazons-pr-genius
Money quote: "Even apparently negative stories, for example about how hard the workers are driven, benefit Amazon, much like a mobster's reputation: 'don't try competing with these guys'. Hence, one could suggest that even if a journalist sets out to make Amazon look bad, the result is generally something that looks and feels negative but still actually helps the company"
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/1/1/amazons-pr-genius
Benedict Evans
Amazon's PR genius — Benedict Evans
Is there any company more successful at controlling the public narrative than Amazon? Nothing it cares about ever leaks. Almost all of the press coverage, even and especially the negative stories, runs to a script that Bezos could have written - "We do…
Un classico: la segnaletica delle stazioni di Tokyo (o di altri sottosistemi della capitale nipponica) rispetto all’Occidente sono un ottimo punto di partenza per le interfacce ambientali visto la densità e la complessità. Sempre piacevole da leggere.
Money quote: “People push past me as I exit the train at Shibuya station, and I start looking for the Hachiko statue. My friends told me to meet there before dinner, but ten minutes later I’m still lost. Thankfully once I slow down and look at my surroundings, I see guides all around me. At its size and complexity, Tokyo is easy to get lost in. But with well-designed navigational aids, you can get un-lost quite easily.”
https://uxdesign.cc/walking-through-design-in-tokyo-d6f00a4639b7
Money quote: “People push past me as I exit the train at Shibuya station, and I start looking for the Hachiko statue. My friends told me to meet there before dinner, but ten minutes later I’m still lost. Thankfully once I slow down and look at my surroundings, I see guides all around me. At its size and complexity, Tokyo is easy to get lost in. But with well-designed navigational aids, you can get un-lost quite easily.”
https://uxdesign.cc/walking-through-design-in-tokyo-d6f00a4639b7
uxdesign.cc
Walking Through Design in Tokyo
How applying UX principles to pedestrian navigation can make rush hour better
Forwarded from Daily Egg
"Ban? Bon Voyage!" 1) Read a book. 2) Enjoy a light snack. 3) Say hello to the person next to you... the Royal Jordanian AD trolling Trump and making profit of the laptop ban. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/03/royal-jordanian-airlines-is-trolling-donald-trump/520755/
The Atlantic
The Jordanian Airline Making Money Off the Laptop Ban
How trolling Trump became a marketing strategy
La grande segretezza di Game of Thrones, a partire dalla posta elettronica degli attori.
Money quote: "In a recent interview with Express, actress Nathalie Emmanuel, who plays Daenerys’ BFF Missandei, said the cast was required to set up two-factor authentication on their email accounts this year. They only received digital copies of the script through these accounts, and weren’t allowed to print them"
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/5/5/15556388/game-of-thrones-script-security-season-7-2fa
Money quote: "In a recent interview with Express, actress Nathalie Emmanuel, who plays Daenerys’ BFF Missandei, said the cast was required to set up two-factor authentication on their email accounts this year. They only received digital copies of the script through these accounts, and weren’t allowed to print them"
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/5/5/15556388/game-of-thrones-script-security-season-7-2fa
The Verge
Game of Thrones makes its stars two-factor their emails now
But their emails