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February 17, 2015
1. A contact lens with zoom built in. "Developed by a team led by Eric Tremblay at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, the rigid contact...
RF: dexter
February 13, 2015
1. David Carr, a media columnist who was the north star for many journalists (myself included) died yesterday in the tower of news. "David’s public...
RF: devolute
February 11, 2015
1. Beautiful art from Casey Reas of the UCLA Arts Software Studio. "I work with statements, variables, loops, conditionals, functions, objects, and arrays....
RF: desperation (w. bonus reader feedback)
February 10, 2015
1. The megabad climate change scenario. Earth, 2200 AD. "There are only about 500 million of us left, after the convulsive transformations caused by climate...
Real Future, 0.5: desolated
February 9, 2015
1. Shimmering data is one of the most useful, evocative phrases I've run into in a long time. "The climate knowledge infrastructure is constantly opening...
Real Future, 0.4: desire
February 6, 2015
1. Life inside a Chinese bitcoin mine. "Strangely, the mine’s workers actually live inside the facility itself, returning home just four or five days a...
RF, 0.3: desideratum
February 5, 2015
1. After Google denied his request to photograph an Oklahoma server farm, an Irish artist flew a helicopter over it to get a better view. "The joy of the...
Real Future, 0.2: derring-do
February 4, 2015
1. Navy SEALS, DELTA Force, Green Berets, and CIA operatives recently met to discuss... bitcoin and other crypto-currencies. "In particular, the Islamic...
Real Future, 0.1: depositary
February 3, 2015
(Hey, why has the name changed?! Read this.) 1. The resurgence of psychedelics as psychological treatments gets the big New Yorker treatment. "'I don’t want...
Welcome to Real Future (née 5IT)
February 3, 2015
Standby for a real, actual (tiny)letter! I have some good news. When I left The Atlantic to go to Fusion last year, I said that I wanted a place to explore...
5IT: depicture
January 30, 2015
1. This Deadswap offline sharing game sounds fascinating. "deadSwap is a clandestine offline file sharing system where participants covertly pass a USB stick...
5IT: dentrifice
January 29, 2015
1. A mini-doc about Grace Hopper, one of the giants of early computing. "As a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Hopper worked on the first computer, the Harvard...
5IT: dent
January 28, 2015
1. Logistically, how does the US military pull out of Afghanistan? "Command centers packed with arena-style seating, video-conferencing systems, and giant...
5IT: dénouement
January 27, 2015
1. Somebody looped 12 hours of the ambient droning in Deckard's apartment in Blade Runner. It has received 115,000 listens. "Relax into the couch as you...
5IT: demote
January 26, 2015
1. Autodesk is taking the idea of designing life quite literally. "Although primarily known for revolutionizing computer-aided design with the release of...
5IT: demoralize
January 22, 2015
1. Perhaps the movie Ex Machina gets artificial intelligence right? "Ava (played with alien poise by Alicia Vikander) is a beautiful robot created by a self-...
5IT
January 21, 2015
1. A historically informed deflation of the short-term potential of AI to revolutionize geopolitics. "The artificial intelligence landscape of the 1980s was...
5IT: democrat(ic)
January 16, 2015
1. This research into homelessness in SimCity is so, so interesting. "SimCity players have discussed a variety of creative strategies for their virtual...
5IT: demimonde
January 15, 2015
1. Glass is really, really important in our current computing paradigm. "At CES 2015, Corning unveiled its new glass product, Iris, which focuses on the...
5IT: debacle
January 14, 2015
1. Hollywood studio courts "cybersecurity influencers" to promote new hacker movie, Blackhat. "Last week, a bunch of real-world hacker types got an advance...
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