Balmorhea: Clear Language.
Aggregation Theory describes how platforms (i.e. aggregators) come to dominate the industries in which they compete in a systematic and predictable way. Aggregation Theory should serve as a guidebook for aspiring platform companies, a warning for industries predicated on controlling distribution, and a primer for regulators addressing the inevitable antitrust concerns
The Shirt Of The Future Will Be Made By Methane-Eating Bacteria.
Does even New York Magazine know what a presidential portrait is?
Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?
The Failing Economy of Austro-Uber.
Do you know why Uber is 25% cheaper than a traditional taxi? Your ride is being subsidized, but in this case by private venture capital instead of taxpayers.
Making a ‘new internet’ to protect data and bypass the Great Firewall.
Blockstack is a decentralised internet where users keep their data locally when they run apps, and a Hong Kong-based software engineer is helping get the project off the ground.
The logos of global corporations like Apple, Starbucks, and Foot Locker are designed to create instant brand associations in the minds of billions who see them every day. But how accurately can we remember the features and colors of these famous symbols?
The Post-Antibiotic Era Is Here. Now What?
Even This Data Guru Is Creeped Out By What Anonymous Location Data Reveals About Us.
Using code and the web, a data scientist follows two unnamed people and learns just how much our anonymous location data can say about who we are.
On Primo Levi’s “The Periodic Table” (1975).
The chemical element that sparked a victory in Auschwitz.