Hey guys! Wanted to share some articles that I found particularly interesting today. I'm generally a voracious reading of, well, anything that satisfies my curiosity. Without further ado:
I read some interesting things about Jame Bartlett's new book Radicals. If you want to avoid reading the whole book, here's an excellent review in The Guardian. "Bartlett’s uniting theme, as his title suggests, is radical approaches to life today. "
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/16/radicals-outsiders-changing-the-world-jamie-bartlett-review
"The terms espresso bar and ‘anarchic ethical hacker collective’ don’t usually go together but this radical bitcoin-only hub in the Czech capital is no ordinary cafe." I'm bummed that I missed out on this when I studied in Prague a few years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/apr/26/prague-bitcoin-coffee-cafe-cryptocurrency-paralelni-polis
From the aforementioned Jamie Bartlett, here's a piece he wrote in the Guardian, which I find quite good.
"Many are concerned about the internet’s role in politics. But more worrying is the digital tsunami poised to engulf us, as machine intelligence and a rising tech elite radically restructure life as we know it."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/04/forget-far-right-populism-crypto-anarchists-are-the-new-masters-internet-politics
For a meta-post. Here's a link to another curated list of excellent posts about crypto-tokens from a16z's always-on point Chris Dixon.
https://medium.com/@cdixon/crypto-token-roundup-4d57c32a87d7
And a report on the state of the dapps.
https://dapps.ethercasts.com/
The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/technology/tech-billionaires-education-zuckerberg-facebook-hastings.html?utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&utm_campaign=591633683d-The_Download&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-591633683d-153869305&_r=0
Here's a nice piece breaking down Apple's impending AR platform.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/6/15742736/apple-arkit-augmented-reality-platform-wwdc-breakdown
Happy Reading.