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We’re not going back to normal
Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever.
by Gideon Lichfield Mar 17, 2020
www.technologyreview.com/s/615370/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing-18-months/?utm_campaign
Inside the race to build the best quantum computer on Earth
Inside the race to build the best quantum computer on Earth
Quantum chandelier RIGETTI COMPUTING / JUSTIN FANTL Google’s most advanced computer isn’t at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, nor anywhere in the febrile sprawl of Silicon Valley. It’s a few hours’ drive south in Santa Barbara, in a flat, soulless office park inhabited mostly by technology firms you’ve never heard of. An open-plan office holds several dozen desks.…
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Short, Not-So-Sweet, And To The Point
Short, Not-So-Sweet, And To The Point
Tonight’s post is short … I have a single rant and a poem, and then I am going to bed, for I am tired, angry, sad, and my left eye is swollen shut (no, I didn’t get punched — I petted the cat, then rubbed my eye). I’ll be back later with renewed energy (I hope).
Gross misuse of OUR MONEY!!!
In the United States today, we have a rising national debt that is currently at $24.95 trillion. We have…
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Life After Death
This was a comment I made to a factually sketchy (ahem) Atlantic article by a Gideon Lichfield titled the Science of Near Death Experience. Obviously the author never responded. What could he say? It is sad, though, the depths to which the Atlantic is sinking in an attempt to stay relevant on the Internet. What is next? Chemtrails? If you want to see what the Atlantic Monthly used to be, read…
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The end of the beat
According to Poynter, Atlantic Media will launch business-news site Quartz, sometime this week.
Quartz Global News Editor Gideon Lichfield has an interesting post on his blog, from which I stole the following quote about "the end of the beat":
We want to reach a global, cosmopolitan crowd, people who see themselves as living “in the world”. . . So instead of fixed beats, we structure our newsroom around an ever-evolving collection of phenomena—the patterns, trends and seismic shifts that are shaping the world our readers live in. “Financial markets” is a beat, but “the financial crisis” is a phenomenon. “The environment” is a beat, but “climate change” is a phenomenon. “Energy” is a beat, but “the global surge of energy abundance” is a phenomenon. “China” is a beat, but “Chinese investment in Africa” is a phenomenon. We call these phenomena our “obsessions”. These are the kinds of topics Quartz will put in its navigation bar, and as the world changes, so will they.
