Estonia’s ultimate goal in digitizing its society has less to do with automation than it does with embracing the transient nature of labor in the European marketplace.
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Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: A Reading List About Witches
Witchcraft: it’s spirituality, it’s a philosophy, it’s a lot more than flowy black dresses and cursing your exes.
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The Netflix Prize: How a $1 Million Contest Changed Binge-Watching Forever
In 2006, Netflix launched a competition to increase the efficiency of its recommender system by 10 percent, bringing together a ragtag group of engineers from around the world who helped make large strides in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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In Six Seconds, Giphy Could Make Billions
GIFs have long served as signals of cultural fluency. Now they’re poised to become a big business.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
A Pact Between You, God, and the Dance Floor
Dancing the nights away with bar and bat mitzvah professionals known as “party motivators.”
Posted inQuotes, Science & Nature
The Dream of a Perfect Android
Hiroshi Ishiguro has spent his career creating robots. But does he know enough about humans to make them lifelike?
Posted inBooks, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Story
The Creator of Bitcoin Comes Clean, Only to Disappear Again
The mysterious creator of bitcoin asks a journalist to help reveal his identity.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Joe Scapellato on “The Made-Up Man” and the Myth of the Self
In Scapellato’s new novel, a man is pulled into a noir detective mystery he doesn’t want to solve.
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It’s Time To Talk About Solar Geoengineering
We need to start talking about seemingly drastic approaches to the climate crisis, such as sun-dimming aerosols, right now — or we risk losing democratic control of the process.
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Longreads Best of 2018: Arts and Culture
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in arts and culture.
