🐱👓 Wheat, Wealth, Art, Baby, and Hipster
The Woman Who Harvested a Wheat Field Off Wall Street
By Karrie Jacobs | The New York Times Style Magazine | June 14, 2018
Agnes Denes, the queen of Land Art, made one of New York’s greatest public art projects ever in 1982. Now, the world might be catching up with her. (2,030 words)
Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth
By Bill Gurley | Above the Crowd | February 27, 2019
In 1776, Adam Smith released his magnum opus, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, in which he outlined his fundamental economic theories. Front and center in the book — in fact in Book 1, Chapter 1 — is his realization of the productivity improvements made possible through the “Division of Labour” (3,394 words)
The Secrets of the World's Greatest Art Thief
By Michael Finkel | GQ Culture | February 28, 2019
Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief in history. And as he reveals to GQ’s Michael Finkel, how Breitwieser managed to do all this is every bit as surprising as why. (9,437 words)
‘You can track everything’: the parents who digitise their babies’ lives
By Richard Godwin | The Guardian | March 2, 2019
Socks that record heart rate and cots that mimic the womb might promise parents peace of mind – but is the data given to tech firms a fair exchange? (4,449 words)
The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
By Emerging Technology from the arXiv | MIT Technology Review | February 28, 2019
Complexity science explains why efforts to reject the mainstream merely result in a new conformity. (1,672 words) 🐱👓
🎧 Podcast Episode:
Hidden Forces — In Episode 22, Demetri speaks with Leemon Baird, the founder and creator of Hedera Hashgraph, a distributed ledger technology that may have solved the problem of scale in distributed consensus. Its properties of speed, security, and fairness could expand decentralized use cases to complex markets, auctions, crypto-currency micro payments, live games (even MMOs), and much more.
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