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L’intervista al CEO di Google, Sundar Pichai, è molto, molto buona: tecnologia, tasse, uguaglianza dei generi, protezione dei dati, come creare il futuro. Bravo Guardian, lettura veramente ricca. Non so però se l’apertura dell’articolo sia pensata per creare simpatia per la vita preistorica in India trent’anni fa: a me sembra l’Italia di inizio duemila...

Money quote: “hen Sundar Pichai was growing up in Chennai, south-east India, he had to make regular trips to the hospital to pick up his mother’s blood-test results. It took an hour and 20 minutes by bus, and when he got there he would have to stand and queue for an hour, often to be told the results weren’t ready.

It took five years for his family to get their first rotary telephone, when Pichai was 12. It was a landmark moment. “It would take me 10 minutes to call the hospital, and maybe they’d tell me, ‘No, come back tomorrow’,” Pichai says. “We waited a long time to get a refrigerator, too, and I saw how my mom’s life changed: she didn’t need to cook every day, she could spend more time with us. So there is a side of me that has viscerally seen how technology can make a difference, and I still feel it. I feel the optimism and energy, and the moral imperative to accelerate that progress.””

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/07/google-boss-sundar-pichai-tax-gender-equality-data-protection-jemima-kiss
Hanno i terminali, hanno la rete, ma non hanno le prese elettriche per ricaricare i telefonini. L’Africa e l’Asia stanno vivendo un altro paradosso che definirà il modo nel quale si svilupperà l’innovazione in quei mercati.

Money quote: “While delivering the next billion smartphones to first-time customers is relatively easy, finding ways to charge them is not, because many people in developing countries lack reliable access to electricity. Solving this problem will challenge the rich world’s assumptions about what services should be provided by which kinds of network companies.

In most countries where people lack reliable access to electricity, they have better access to a 3G or better cellular network. This means the smartphone -- and its business, social and entertainment uses -- will create greater demand for electricity.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-06/the-challenge-to-keep-the-world-s-smartphones-charging
Le prime mille formule di Homebrew. Una lista che fotografa alcuni mesi di utilizzo del repository e sistema di distribuzione che ha completamente cambiato il mio modo di usare il Mac e la riga di comando. Qual è la formula che è stata scaricata di più? Quante volte?

Le prime tre: node, git e wget; il mio vim è in 17ma posizione. Macvim molto, molto più in giù.

https://brew.sh/analytics/install-on-request/
Richard Branson ha scritto una autobiografia intitolata “My Virginity”, sull’idea di affrontare sempre nuove sfide. In questo caso Hyperloop, il treno ad aria compressa e levitazione magnetica.

Money quote: “Delighted to announce Virgin Group’s investment in Hyperloop One – the world’s most revolutionary train service. This is an incredibly innovative and exciting new way to move people and things at airline speeds on the ground. At the same time we have also agreed to rebrand the company as Virgin Hyperloop One”

https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/introducing-virgin-hyperloop-one-worlds-most-revolutionary-train-service
Rientrato a Milano. Ma mi fermo poco in città. Intanto, qui su Mostly continuiamo con tranquillità a pubblicare cose. Se vi capita, segnalatelo a qualche amico/a che potrebbe essere interessato. È gratuito! Grazie!
Posti di lavoro in quota
La guerra dei bike sharing in Cina. Mamma mia...

Money quote: “Start-ups have flooded the city with shared bikes, he complained, and people have been leaving them all over the place without thinking about other residents. “There’s no sense of decency anymore,” he muttered, picking up the discarded bike and heaving it into the air in anger. “We treat each other like enemies.”

There are now more than 16 million shared bicycles on the road in China’s traffic-clogged cities, thanks to a fierce battle for market share among 70-plus companies backed by a total of more than $1 billion in financing. These start-ups have reshaped the urban landscape, putting bikes equipped with GPS and digital locks on almost every street corner in a way that Silicon Valley can only dream of.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/china-beijing-dockless-bike-share.html
Intanto che Alitalia agonizza e dalla sua app non si riescono a vedere biglietti che non siano stati comprati nella app stessa, Delta si inventa il check-in automatico...
Dedicato al mio amico Roberto e a tutti quelli con un super cervello perennemente fuori giri.

Money quote: “For Pinker, the root cause of so much bad writing is what he calls "the Curse of Knowledge", which he defines as "a difficulty in imagining what it is like for someone else not to know something that you know. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose."”

https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/the-single-reason-why-people-cant-write-according-.html

Ps: in realtà da noi si scrive male anche per eccessiva ignoranza: il “tardo burocratico” degli uffici postali o delle caserme dell’Arma è un classico. Però...
Una bomba. Quando parliamo di trasformazione digitale pensiamo soprattutto al mondo degli affari ma è il mutamento dei processi m sociali quello realmente coinvolto. La rivista del MIT, la Technology Review, prende il toro per le corna della famiglia e spiega che probabilmente la trasformazione a cui stiamo assistendo con sempre crescente consapevolezza è molto più profonda e significativa di quel che pensavamo. Cambia la famiglia e la stessa idea di relazione affettiva. Altro che legami forti e deboli: questo sono legami nuovi.

Money quote: "Online dating has changed that. Today, online dating is the second most common way for heterosexual couples to meet. For homosexual couples, it is far and away the most popular.

That has significant implications. “People who meet online tend to be complete strangers,” say Ortega and Hergovich. And when people meet in this way, it sets up social links that were previously nonexistent."

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609091/first-evidence-that-online-dating-is-changing-the-nature-of-society/