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Mark Zuckerberg writing in The Financial Times: “good regulation may hurt Facebook’s business in the near term but it will be better for everyone, including us, over the long term.”
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Has the impact of the internet on the “retail apocalypse” been overstated?
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Information environments? (1) How grocers are using software to decide what products should be stocked on which shelves. (WSJ subscription required.)
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My notes on The Optimist’s Telescope, a new book about “how we can plan better for the future: our own, our families’ — and our society’s.”
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Given Apple’s position as steward of my information environments, it has tremendous power over my attention. Will it wield that power responsibly?
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Information environments? (2) How The Mandalorian’s production team uses the Unreal game engine and enormous LED screens to put actors in virtual sets.
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With so many sources of information competing for people’s attention, you want your message to get through. Clear labeling is essential.
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RIP influential computer scientist Larry Tesler, to whom we owe – among other things — the CUT/COPY/PASTE paradigm. NYT obit.
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An interactive map of how big tech collects, uses, and shares your information.