Via Winchell Chung. I’m always interested in alternative ways of organising collective effort, and that’s what this article is about. It taught me a new word: stigmergic.
Originally shared by Emlyn O’Regan
It’s Sunday, time for revolutionary thoughts. Here’s my latest thinking on automating our bosses away, replacing them with a small script.
https://medium.com/@emlynoregan/how-to-automate-away-our-owners-3928032e112a#.2rcjnfsa7
Roundup from a conference on “exponential medicine”.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Looking at trends in longevity, cybersecurity, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and more.
I’ve seen other variations on this simple formula. It’s a place to start.
Originally shared by Writers Write
Originally shared by Eduardo Suastegui
Brain Implant Restores Sense Of Touch To Paralyzed Man
I have a story I’m currently trying to sell in which a young woman is struggling in her career as an “aspiration model” – basically what this article calls an influencer.
Originally shared by Guy Kawasaki
Influencers Are The New Brands http://bit.ly/2dxA643
http://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahweinswig/2016/10/05/influencers-are-the-new-brands/#772ef7db7fc5
Author Earnings reports its first ever dip in indie market share, sales and earnings, since beginning its analysis in February 2014.
Consensus among commenters seems to be that this is because Amazon isn’t counting KU borrows correctly if books are read in Page Flip mode.
“The cyber is really hard,” he says. “Maybe impossible.”
Just kidding – he’s informed and insightful, an SF fan, and optimistic about the human capacity to solve problems by applied intelligence and hard work.
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/president-obama-mit-joi-ito-interview/
Via Winchell Chung, who also has some interesting thoughts on his share of the post. (Sorry, can’t link directly to it, since the mobile app doesn’t seem to give me that option.)
Originally shared by Emily Dresner-Thornber
Vikings between 900AD and 1100AD had Ulfbehrt swords. Swords so strong and flexible, so much better than any other western weapons, they were essentially magic. They’re real and about 170 of them are scattered in medieval weapon collections in museums.
They’re made out of crucible steel. This is a process for heating iron up to 3000 degrees to push out all the impurities and increase the carbon content. The process for producing crucible steel was unknown until the 1800s in the West when it was discovered during the Industrial Revolution.
So how did Vikings in 900AD lay hands on swords made of steel not discovered until 1800AD? Time travelers? Well, maybe. But the process was actually discovered first in Sri Lanka and southern India around the birth of Christ, and ingots likely came to Damascus and newly-established Baghdad via the Indian Sea trade route. And from there, Vikings reached the Middle East markets via the Volga Sea/Caspian Sea routes. They bought ingots in the marketplaces in exchange for northern goods (pelts, dried fish, etc) and brought them back home. Their blacksmiths forged the swords…
And because they were so storied, fakes appeared in West marketplaces everywhere. But because most people were illiterate, they failed to properly replicate the marks of a real Ulfberht swords…
Cool story and makes from an interesting possible driver for a campaign.
#gaming #dungeonsanddragons
http://www.critical-hits.com/blog/2016/10/11/the-quest-for-a-magic-sword/
http://www.critical-hits.com/blog/2016/10/11/the-quest-for-a-magic-sword/
At least they’re making an attempt.
Originally shared by Maria Rich
This is very interesting! I like what they are attempting to do. Tom Weldon, chief executive of Penguin Random House UK, said “We feel very strongly about diversity in publishing. For me it is a real problem when we don’t reflect the society we live in. It’s not good for books, or culture, or commercially. We are going to become irrelevant.”
What they are doing about it also interesting. A three-part workshop for potential new authors and a year-long mentorship for three of those. Also, they are making efforts to employ more diversity. To the extent of changing their hiring qualifications!
Weldon said, “When a publisher has a bestseller, it’s easy to [just keep publishing] what sold yesterday. [But] there are amazing writers out there who we aren’t commissioning. The whole industry needs to change.” AMEN. Now can we bring this thought process over to the US?
Follow-up to yesterday’s post. Whew.
Still a concern that someone wrote that script in the first place, but at least it sounds as if that isn’t what’s getting made.
Originally shared by Derrick “Quite Clever” Sanders
Hey, Mike Reeves-McMillan…
http://io9.gizmodo.com/thank-god-the-live-action-mulan-will-have-an-all-chine-1787657434