Oh, the possibilities.

Social media that reads your mood and manipulates it – well, we already have that.

Real-time, subliminal polling on everything from media to politics, leading to adjustments to storylines and party lines.

On the upside, child-minding AIs who train kids to deal better with their emotions.

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Tech Is Becoming Emotionally Intelligent, and It’s Big Business http://suhub.co/2h6mC4I

I have a story (which needs more work) that touches on some of this. The article paints a picture of a very different kind of agriculture from what we have today.

For one thing, migrant labourers, and indeed farm labour in general, are likely to be replaced by automation in the longer term, certainly for big commercial farms in the west.

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The Farms of the Future Will Be Automated From Seed to Harvest http://suhub.co/2yYtOqx

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Amazon Is Quietly Building the Robots of Sci-Fi—Piece by Practical Piece http://suhub.co/2zeRuHI

A cogent argument for space exploration.

Originally shared by Winchell Chung

In 1970, a Zambia-based nun named Sister Mary Jucunda wrote to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, then-associate director of science at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, in response to his ongoing research into a piloted mission to Mars. Specifically, she asked how he could suggest spending billions of dollars on such a project at a time when so many children were starving on Earth.

Stuhlinger soon sent the following letter of explanation to Sister Jucunda, along with a copy of “Earthrise,” the iconic photograph of Earth taken in 1968 by astronaut William Anders, from the Moon

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html

Clothing, like food, is political in ways we often don’t notice.

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Advancing the notion of pockets as distinctly masculine, one 1895 designer of women’s bicycle “costumes” even included pockets for pistols. “Not all of them want to carry a revolver,” says the anonymous tailor quoted by the New York Times, “but a large percentage do and make no ‘bones’ about saying so. Even when they do not tell me why they want the pocket, they often betray their purpose by asking to have it lined with duck or leather.”

Pictured is a “chatelaine”, sort of a feminine Victorian version of Batman’s utility belt.

https://www.racked.com/2016/9/19/12865560/politics-of-pockets-suffragettes-women

Despite the headline, it isn’t actually living (the bacteria are killed in the process), but it’s a step towards using biological processes to create partially organic technology.

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This ‘Living Touch Screen’ Is Made out of Bacteria and Gold http://suhub.co/2y74ObT

This is happening now.

Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger

This article is chock-full of not only good data, but good analysis of how automation has been changing the labor market for decades – and how, if you haven’t already noticed, this isn’t getting any better.

https://medium.com/basic-income/the-real-story-of-automation-beginning-with-one-simple-chart-8b95f9bad71b

I’d be interested in Laura Gibbs’ thoughts on this one.

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Neuroeducation Will Lead to Big Breakthroughs in Learning http://suhub.co/2yLlB7X

When local, small-scale production becomes powerful again, what changes?

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How Technology Is Driving Us Toward Peak Globalization http://suhub.co/2yGQlHa