Future
Our Transparent Future. No secret is safe in the digital age… | by Deb Roy
No secret is safe in the digital age. The implications for our institutions are downright Darwinian. Daniel C. Dennett and Deb Roy More than half a billion years ago a spectacularly creative burst of biological innovation called the Cambrian explosion occurred. In a geologic “instant” of several million years, organisms developed strikingly new body shapes, …
Port of Baltimore workers were bracing for a busy summer season. Now thousands face an uncertain future.
DUNDALK, Md. — The livelihoods of thousands of workers who process goods passing through the Port of Baltimore hang in the balance as cargo shipments grind to a halt after a container ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge this week.“These longshore workers, if goods aren’t moving, they’re not working,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg …
Artificial intelligence and the future of humanity
Thinking and learning about artificial intelligence are the mental equivalent of a fission chain reaction. The questions get really big, really quickly. The most familiar concerns revolve around short-term impacts: the opportunities for economic productivity, health care, manufacturing, education, solving global challenges such as climate change and, on the flip side, the risks of mass …
Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future [LWN.net]
Did you know…? LWN.net is a subscriber-supported publication; we rely on subscribers to keep the entire operation going. Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. By Jonathan CorbetJune 4, 2021 Back in a distant time — longer ago than he cares to admit — your editor managed a system-administration …
Opinion | Threads, Twitter, and the Future of Social Media
War is breaking out on social media, and it could radically change how the internet works and how we experience it. Last week, Meta rolled out Threads, a social media product similar to Twitter that quickly got over 100 million sign-ups. This is more than just a tech founder cage match — it is the …
History and future of Infrastructure as Code
Posted on 2023-05-13 Infrastructure as Code is a fascinating domain of software development. While as a discipline it’s still relatively young, not only has it already undergone several paradigm-shifting transformations in its short lifetime, but I think it’s one of the hottest areas of software development innovation today, with several players – ranging from Big …
It’s back to the future for a diminished digital news business
Homepage traffic, blogging, niche email newsletters. They were some of the foundational concepts of digital media in the early 2000s. And as the digital news media business turns again, they’re increasingly the ones media organizations are turning to. For the last decade, social media websites like Facebook and Twitter were the virtual front pages of …
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please… Google has created one of the best operating systems designed with the everyday user1 in mind: Chrome OS. It is undeniably simple, reliable, easy to setup, and ships with …
Is Substack the future of media?
Is Substack the future of media? It’s a question the industry has been asking itself for at least two years – long enough for some to start declaring that the “Substack boom” of 2020 is already over. In reality the new economy created by the platform just keeps getting bigger. Two years ago, fewer than …
Cape Coral’s mayor lays out the city’s plans for the future
CAPE CORAL There are big plans in the works for Southwest Florida’s largest city. From attracting companies to offer jobs to traffic growth and safety, Cape Coral has big plans for the future. Cape Coral was growing almost too fast before Hurricane Ian. The storm put a pause on that. Now, a little more than …
