Donald Trump, la retorica della politica e il valore manipolativo del teleprompt
Money quote: “We tend to think of speech as a less contrived medium than writing. Yet the assistive technology of the teleprompter is a routine feature of contemporary speechifying. It relies upon an unstated contract between the speaker and listener. We, the audience, know that we are hearing a pre-written presentation; but somehow we forget the artifice, and feel as if the speaker is creating something for us afresh. Even when we know the text is being read from a screen, our perception of what counts as ‘true’ speech seems to be bound up with a particular rhetorical style that suggests spontaneity and self-confidence: a direct gaze, no cue cards, a natural pace.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/what-the-teleprompter-tells-us-about-truth-trump-and-speech
Money quote: “We tend to think of speech as a less contrived medium than writing. Yet the assistive technology of the teleprompter is a routine feature of contemporary speechifying. It relies upon an unstated contract between the speaker and listener. We, the audience, know that we are hearing a pre-written presentation; but somehow we forget the artifice, and feel as if the speaker is creating something for us afresh. Even when we know the text is being read from a screen, our perception of what counts as ‘true’ speech seems to be bound up with a particular rhetorical style that suggests spontaneity and self-confidence: a direct gaze, no cue cards, a natural pace.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/what-the-teleprompter-tells-us-about-truth-trump-and-speech
Aeon
What the teleprompter tells us about truth, Trump and speech
The teleprompter makes speechifying look slick. But in an age of off-the-cuff tweeting, has the technology had its day?
La vita media dei prodotti Apple è quattro anni e tre mesi - il mio articolo per Wired
https://www.wired.it/gadget/computer/2018/03/05/la-vita-media-dei-prodotti-apple/
https://www.wired.it/gadget/computer/2018/03/05/la-vita-media-dei-prodotti-apple/
WIRED.IT
La vita media dei prodotti Apple è quattro anni e tre mesi
Secondo un analista di Asymco questo è l'uso da parte dei clienti. Che però, se sono troppo affezionati ai vecchi prodotti, diventano un problema
I cellulari sono una protesi o addirittura un pezzo di noi, almeno secondo la nostra mente (e la giurisprudenza americana)
Money quote: “In 2014, the United States Supreme Court used this observation to justify the decision that police must obtain a warrant before rummaging through our smartphones. These devices ‘are now such a pervasive and insistent part of daily life that the proverbial visitor from Mars might conclude they were an important feature of human anatomy’, as Chief Justice John Roberts observed in his written opinion.”
Are ‘you’ just inside your skin or is your smartphone part of you? | Aeon Ideas
https://aeon.co/ideas/are-you-just-inside-your-skin-or-is-your-smartphone-part-of-you
Money quote: “In 2014, the United States Supreme Court used this observation to justify the decision that police must obtain a warrant before rummaging through our smartphones. These devices ‘are now such a pervasive and insistent part of daily life that the proverbial visitor from Mars might conclude they were an important feature of human anatomy’, as Chief Justice John Roberts observed in his written opinion.”
Are ‘you’ just inside your skin or is your smartphone part of you? | Aeon Ideas
https://aeon.co/ideas/are-you-just-inside-your-skin-or-is-your-smartphone-part-of-you
Aeon
Are ‘you’ just inside your skin or is your smartphone part of you?
When it comes to basic rights and freedoms, do digital devices deserve the same protection as our brains and bodies?
Negli Usa sta succedendo una cosa strana: la domanda di energia elettrica per la prima volta è piatta, cioè i consumi non stanno aumentando. Le conseguenze saranno estremamente interessanti, anche perché negli Usa le utility sono pubbliche e hanno l'imperativo di fare (sempre più) soldi per i propri azionisti.
Money quote: "Thanks to a combination of greater energy efficiency, outsourcing of heavy industry, and customers generating their own power on site, demand for utility power has been flat for 10 years, and most forecasts expect it to stay that way. The die was cast around 1998, when GDP growth and electricity demand growth became “decoupled”:"
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/2/27/17052488/electricity-demand-utilities
Money quote: "Thanks to a combination of greater energy efficiency, outsourcing of heavy industry, and customers generating their own power on site, demand for utility power has been flat for 10 years, and most forecasts expect it to stay that way. The die was cast around 1998, when GDP growth and electricity demand growth became “decoupled”:"
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/2/27/17052488/electricity-demand-utilities
Vox
After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat. Utilities are freaking out.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is the latest to be caught short.
Quello di cui si parla in questo articolo sono i designer, la loro "generazione perduta", quella allevata dagli hippie e avida, rapace, priva di spina dorsale. Una generazione che, nella Silicon Valley, non si farà rimpiangere. Ma questo ragionamento secondo me scavalca l'oceano e arriva fino a noi. Perché no?
Money quote: "The current generation of designers have spent their careers learning how to work faster and faster and faster. And while there’s certainly something to be said for speed, excessive speed tends to blur one’s purpose. To get products through that gate before anyone noticed what they were and how foul they smelled. Because we broke some things. It’s one thing to break a database, but when that database holds the keys to interpersonal relationships the database isn’t the only thing that breaks."
https://medium.com/@monteiro/designs-lost-generation-ac7289549017
Money quote: "The current generation of designers have spent their careers learning how to work faster and faster and faster. And while there’s certainly something to be said for speed, excessive speed tends to blur one’s purpose. To get products through that gate before anyone noticed what they were and how foul they smelled. Because we broke some things. It’s one thing to break a database, but when that database holds the keys to interpersonal relationships the database isn’t the only thing that breaks."
https://medium.com/@monteiro/designs-lost-generation-ac7289549017
Medium
Design’s Lost Generation
A year ago I was in the audience at a gathering of designers in San Francisco. There were four designers on stage, and two of them worked…
Una bella intervista di The Believer a Laurie Sheck, scrittrice.
Money quote:
"THE BELIEVER: Are you genre-fluid?
LAURIE SHECK: With Gertrude Stein, we say she is a writer. We don’t label her in terms of genre. I love that. Too often, fluidity makes people nervous. If they can’t label one thing or another, they crack. It’s bad enough with people, but with books, it’s the same thing. To me, it’s about liberty of mind. Labeling is the opposite of thinking. As if prose is not poetry as well? And a lot of poetry is not poetry—it’s just lines. The whole thing’s all messed up."
https://logger.believermag.com/post/anti-particle-woman
Money quote:
"THE BELIEVER: Are you genre-fluid?
LAURIE SHECK: With Gertrude Stein, we say she is a writer. We don’t label her in terms of genre. I love that. Too often, fluidity makes people nervous. If they can’t label one thing or another, they crack. It’s bad enough with people, but with books, it’s the same thing. To me, it’s about liberty of mind. Labeling is the opposite of thinking. As if prose is not poetry as well? And a lot of poetry is not poetry—it’s just lines. The whole thing’s all messed up."
https://logger.believermag.com/post/anti-particle-woman
The Believer Logger
Anti-Particle Women: An Interview with Writer Laurie Sheck
LAURIE SHECK: With Gertrude Stein, we say she is a writer. We don’t label her in terms of genre. I love that.
Se siete amanti della cucina, vera o televisiva che sia, o semplicemente curiosi, questo articolo è inevitabile
Money quote: “Noma, as you've probably heard, is the Copenhagen restaurant considered by many people, including me, to be the most influential in the world, the place where the dominant strains in world cooking — localism, seasonality, sustainability and science — came together into a whole, aided by Redzepi's strong sense of narrative”
http://www.latimes.com/food/jonathan-gold/la-fo-gold-noma-copenhagen-20180302-story.html
Money quote: “Noma, as you've probably heard, is the Copenhagen restaurant considered by many people, including me, to be the most influential in the world, the place where the dominant strains in world cooking — localism, seasonality, sustainability and science — came together into a whole, aided by Redzepi's strong sense of narrative”
http://www.latimes.com/food/jonathan-gold/la-fo-gold-noma-copenhagen-20180302-story.html
Los Angeles Times
Review: The world's most influential restaurant reinvents itself. Jonathan Gold tastes the changes
The first act of a meal at Noma passes as a dream; rich sea snail bouillon sipped from its herb-smeared shell fading into a field of empty cockleshells in which two or three contain the sweet meat; a mussel constructed from the chewy lips of half a dozen…
Dyson Cyclone V10, l’iPhone degli aspirapolvere -il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/03/06/tecnologia/news/dyson-cyclone-v-liphone-degli-aspirapolvere-6fb4tEjSC9jTrukRTu9I8I/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/03/06/tecnologia/news/dyson-cyclone-v-liphone-degli-aspirapolvere-6fb4tEjSC9jTrukRTu9I8I/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Dyson Cyclone V10, l’iPhone degli aspirapolvere
L’azienda britannica presenta la nuova generazione dei suoi apparecchi senza fili: potenza come un modello tradizionale e autonomia di un’ora
Social e app varie che ci fanno dipendenza grazie alla dopamina. Il Guardian si lancia
Money quote: “The capacity for so-called “persuasive technology” to influence behaviour in this way is only just becoming understood, but the power of the dopamine system to alter habits is already familiar to drug addicts and smokers. Every habit-forming drug, from amphetamines to cocaine, from nicotine to alcohol, affects the dopamine system by dispersing many times more dopamine than usual. The use of these drugs overruns the neural pathways connecting the reward circuit to the prefrontal cortex, which helps people to tame impulses. The more an addict uses a drug, the harder it becomes to stop”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/04/has-dopamine-got-us-hooked-on-tech-facebook-apps-addiction
Money quote: “The capacity for so-called “persuasive technology” to influence behaviour in this way is only just becoming understood, but the power of the dopamine system to alter habits is already familiar to drug addicts and smokers. Every habit-forming drug, from amphetamines to cocaine, from nicotine to alcohol, affects the dopamine system by dispersing many times more dopamine than usual. The use of these drugs overruns the neural pathways connecting the reward circuit to the prefrontal cortex, which helps people to tame impulses. The more an addict uses a drug, the harder it becomes to stop”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/04/has-dopamine-got-us-hooked-on-tech-facebook-apps-addiction
the Guardian
Has dopamine got us hooked on tech?
Silicon Valley is keen to exploit the brain chemical credited with keeping us tapping on apps and social media
Stanno tornando di moda i plotter con penna/pennarellino. Una volta erano un prodigio tecnologico, oggi sono una cosa hipster per fare arte digitale/analogica vintage. Fico!
Money quote: "You might wonder what's so special about pen plotters? Well, let me tell you. Pen plotters are friendly robots from a not so distant past. They're the missing link between pencils and laser printers. They're lovely pieces of high precision technology that nobody cares about anymore. They're computer controlled machines that use regular pens to draw on regular paper with incredible speed and precision. They would draw blueprints for tweedy engineers and turtlenecked architects back in the 70's and 80's, they would draw colorful charts on transparencies for slick investment bankers to present on overhead projectors, and they probably also drew the schematics for the laser- and inkjet printers that replaced them a decade later. They were expensive, beautifully engineered, high quality machines. Which means that there are still plenty of them around, fully working and very cheap. You can, for instance, pick up an HP 7475A on eBay for roughly $50, it's a great starter machine and I can't recommend it enough."
http://www.tobiastoft.com/posts/an-intro-to-pen-plotters
Money quote: "You might wonder what's so special about pen plotters? Well, let me tell you. Pen plotters are friendly robots from a not so distant past. They're the missing link between pencils and laser printers. They're lovely pieces of high precision technology that nobody cares about anymore. They're computer controlled machines that use regular pens to draw on regular paper with incredible speed and precision. They would draw blueprints for tweedy engineers and turtlenecked architects back in the 70's and 80's, they would draw colorful charts on transparencies for slick investment bankers to present on overhead projectors, and they probably also drew the schematics for the laser- and inkjet printers that replaced them a decade later. They were expensive, beautifully engineered, high quality machines. Which means that there are still plenty of them around, fully working and very cheap. You can, for instance, pick up an HP 7475A on eBay for roughly $50, it's a great starter machine and I can't recommend it enough."
http://www.tobiastoft.com/posts/an-intro-to-pen-plotters
Medium
An intro to Pen Plotters
Pen plotters are friendly robots from the past. They’re the missing link between pencils and laser printers. And they’re still amazing.
Grosso guaio a San Francisco: guerra tra gang, utenti VIm contro utenti emacs. Feriti negli scontri, la polizia opera degli arresti. Indagata la Church of Emacs, guidata dal controverso programmatore e "guru" Richard Stallman. Sospetti legami con il crimine organizzato degli editor.
Money quote: "As police officers cleared away yellow tape from the crime scene, a nearby eyewitness sighed and shook his head. “I never knew that editing text could be that controversial. Maybe if those guys were indenting with spaces instead of tabs, all of this could have been avoided.”"
https://medium.com/halting-problem/dolores-park-assault-linked-to-vim-vs-emacs-gang-war-3fb666d72051
Money quote: "As police officers cleared away yellow tape from the crime scene, a nearby eyewitness sighed and shook his head. “I never knew that editing text could be that controversial. Maybe if those guys were indenting with spaces instead of tabs, all of this could have been avoided.”"
https://medium.com/halting-problem/dolores-park-assault-linked-to-vim-vs-emacs-gang-war-3fb666d72051
Medium
Dolores Park Assault Linked to Vim vs. Emacs Gang War
MISSION DISTRICT, SAN FRANCISCO — The police announced that two people were injured in a violent altercation in Dolores Park yesterday. The…
Sono affascinato da Malta e dai racconti sulle tre piccole isole al centro del Mediterraneo. Come il reportage che segue.
Money quote: "Maltese politics were also fascinating: always raucous, occasionally violent. Labour and the Christian Democrat-style Nationalists were invariably closely matched with entrenched tribal support: more like United vs City than left vs right. And small-country back-scratching was part of the fun, especially because so many jobs were government ones. This was intensified by the single transferable vote system, more or less as in Ireland, which encourages competition between candidates of the same party. You get elected by knowing everyone, and doing Tammany Hall-style favours. “There’s always been clientelism. Poor people trying to pressure politicians to get them a job or promotion,” explains Henry Frendo, professor of modern history at the University of Malta."
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2018/02/malta-island-secrets-and-lies
Money quote: "Maltese politics were also fascinating: always raucous, occasionally violent. Labour and the Christian Democrat-style Nationalists were invariably closely matched with entrenched tribal support: more like United vs City than left vs right. And small-country back-scratching was part of the fun, especially because so many jobs were government ones. This was intensified by the single transferable vote system, more or less as in Ireland, which encourages competition between candidates of the same party. You get elected by knowing everyone, and doing Tammany Hall-style favours. “There’s always been clientelism. Poor people trying to pressure politicians to get them a job or promotion,” explains Henry Frendo, professor of modern history at the University of Malta."
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2018/02/malta-island-secrets-and-lies
New Statesman
Malta: an island of secrets and lies
Business is booming in the tiny former British colony. But stories of corruption and assassination are filling the newspapers, and it may be headed for the EU’s naughty step.
Avevo questa idea, come tanti, che una buona dormita ti aiuta a staccare un attimo e a vedere un problema, che cerchi di risolvere con fatica, a mente fresca magari per trovare una bella soluzione. E poi arriva il solito guastafeste con il suo mumbo-jumbo.
Money quote: "Sleep is also critical to problem solving. When my students are stuck on a maths problem, sleep on it is often the only wisdom I have to offer. This adage has served me well in the past and now enjoys a strong neurological basis thanks to the research Walker draws on. Walker relates problem solving to the REM phase of sleep, demonstrating that it is in this critical stage of unconsciousness that we form novel connections between individual chunks of knowledge. REM sleep is where our ideas crystallise and recombine into new, creative thoughts. The link is so pervasive that the phrase sleep on it exists in most languages."
https://medium.com/@fjmubeen/why-sleep-on-it-is-the-most-useful-advice-for-learning-and-also-the-most-neglected-86b20249f06d
Money quote: "Sleep is also critical to problem solving. When my students are stuck on a maths problem, sleep on it is often the only wisdom I have to offer. This adage has served me well in the past and now enjoys a strong neurological basis thanks to the research Walker draws on. Walker relates problem solving to the REM phase of sleep, demonstrating that it is in this critical stage of unconsciousness that we form novel connections between individual chunks of knowledge. REM sleep is where our ideas crystallise and recombine into new, creative thoughts. The link is so pervasive that the phrase sleep on it exists in most languages."
https://medium.com/@fjmubeen/why-sleep-on-it-is-the-most-useful-advice-for-learning-and-also-the-most-neglected-86b20249f06d
Medium
Why ‘sleep on it’ is the most useful advice for learning, and also the most neglected
The role of the unconscious in problem solving
Gli indizi che Amazon possa avviare la sua struttura di logistica e spedizioni per tutti si sommano. E costituiscono un argomento circostanziale interessante, oltre a quello logico, che Amazon prima o poi effettivamente lo farà.
Money quote: "Considering the decades FedEx and UPS have had to build out their networks, it will be an uphill climb for Amazon to make a dent in the industry. That said, Amazon has reportedly been working on making its own logistics network a reality after a disappointing holiday season in 2013 during which countless packages were delivered late."
https://bgr.com/2018/02/09/amazon-delivery-service-swa-fedex-ups/
Money quote: "Considering the decades FedEx and UPS have had to build out their networks, it will be an uphill climb for Amazon to make a dent in the industry. That said, Amazon has reportedly been working on making its own logistics network a reality after a disappointing holiday season in 2013 during which countless packages were delivered late."
https://bgr.com/2018/02/09/amazon-delivery-service-swa-fedex-ups/
BGR
Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS
Amazon may be a one stop shop for home goods, electronics, furniture, clothing and more, but in order to actually get items to your home, the e-commerce giant has to depend on delivery services lik…
L’idea che ci debba essere solo sesso consensuale è un po’ meno ovvia e semplice di quel che sembra
Money quote: “Like informed consent to medical procedures, sexual consent is a contested legal construct that has evolved over time. It is a concept that the law uses to distinguish between criminal and non-criminal sex. But how do we determine whether consent is present or absent? Even the most affirmative consent-based sexual-assault jurisdictions, where consent is understood as the subjective product of the complainant’s mind at the time of the alleged assault, rely on judicial constructs of consent”
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-do-we-understand-sexual-pleasure-in-this-age-of-consent
Money quote: “Like informed consent to medical procedures, sexual consent is a contested legal construct that has evolved over time. It is a concept that the law uses to distinguish between criminal and non-criminal sex. But how do we determine whether consent is present or absent? Even the most affirmative consent-based sexual-assault jurisdictions, where consent is understood as the subjective product of the complainant’s mind at the time of the alleged assault, rely on judicial constructs of consent”
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-do-we-understand-sexual-pleasure-in-this-age-of-consent
Aeon
How do we understand sexual pleasure in this age of ‘consent’?
The idea that consent should be the benchmark for deciding what constitutes permissible sex is far from obvious
Due siti su tre sono fatti con Wordpress: benvenuti nell’era del web tutto uguale
- i miei pensieri sull’argomento per La Stampa
Money quote: “Viviamo come terremotati digitali tutti negli stessi prefabbricati online: casette fatte di bit organizzare sempre alla stessa maniera. Una monocoltura senza scampo e senza possibilità di fuga”
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/03/08/tecnologia/idee/due-siti-su-tre-sono-fatti-con-wordpress-nata-la-monocoltura-del-web-ybL0F7x6zcdpt5gBnNaPCP/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
- i miei pensieri sull’argomento per La Stampa
Money quote: “Viviamo come terremotati digitali tutti negli stessi prefabbricati online: casette fatte di bit organizzare sempre alla stessa maniera. Una monocoltura senza scampo e senza possibilità di fuga”
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/03/08/tecnologia/idee/due-siti-su-tre-sono-fatti-con-wordpress-nata-la-monocoltura-del-web-ybL0F7x6zcdpt5gBnNaPCP/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
LaStampa.it
Due siti su tre sono fatti con Wordpress: benvenuti nell’era del web tutto uguale
Assieme al software open source con Facebook, Twitter e Instagram c’è un oligopolio che livella la parte più abitata della rete
“Il problema dei tre corpi” di Cixin Liu - romanzo molto bello: ecco la mi recensione per Fumettologica
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/03/il-problema-dei-tre-corpi-di-cixin-liu/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/03/il-problema-dei-tre-corpi-di-cixin-liu/
Fumettologica
"Il problema dei tre corpi" di Cixin Liu
Cosa racconta e com'è "Il problema dei tre corpi", il romanzo di fantascienza dello scrittore cinese Cixin Liu, tradotto in Italia da Mondadori.
Due mesi di notizie solo su carta, niente internet. Com'è andata? Ecco cosa ha capito il giornalsita del New York Times che ha tentato l'atroce e pericoloso esperimento...
Money quote: "I am not just less anxious and less addicted to the news, I am more widely informed (though there are some blind spots). And I'm embarrassed about how much free time I have — in two months, I managed to read half a dozen books, took up pottery and (I think) became a more attentive husband and father."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/technology/two-months-news-newspapers.html
Money quote: "I am not just less anxious and less addicted to the news, I am more widely informed (though there are some blind spots). And I'm embarrassed about how much free time I have — in two months, I managed to read half a dozen books, took up pottery and (I think) became a more attentive husband and father."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/technology/two-months-news-newspapers.html
NY Times
For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned. (Published 2018)
Our tech columnist tried to skip digital news for a while. His old-school experiment led to three main conclusions.
Stiamo rimettendo in dubbio il determinismo genetico e un approccio piuttosto strumentale e dogmatico alla complessità dell’esistenza degli organismi biologici. E adesso chi glielo dice a quelli di Repubblica?
Money quote: “Twentieth-century biology was dominated by a strongly reductionist agenda even before James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins revealed the structure of DNA in 1953. Early geneticists knew perfectly well that they were studying statistical correlations (if one makes such-and-such a change in gene x, then allows the organism to develop in a fixed environment e, one will observe alteration f, etc). In later generations, however, the language of causation started to creep in, and with it the idea of a fixed relationship between genes and body features. Every reader of this essay will have read or heard phrases such as ‘the gene for breast cancer’, ‘the gene for autism’ or even ‘the gene for intelligence’ (try typing any of those phrases into a search engine). The cultural idea that went with this slip of meaning – that bodies are made according to a genetic blueprint – placed genes at the centre of mainstream biological thought. The discovery and progressive unravelling of the double helix seemed only to confirm their place there”
https://aeon.co/essays/the-feedback-loop-is-a-better-symbol-of-life-than-the-helix
Money quote: “Twentieth-century biology was dominated by a strongly reductionist agenda even before James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins revealed the structure of DNA in 1953. Early geneticists knew perfectly well that they were studying statistical correlations (if one makes such-and-such a change in gene x, then allows the organism to develop in a fixed environment e, one will observe alteration f, etc). In later generations, however, the language of causation started to creep in, and with it the idea of a fixed relationship between genes and body features. Every reader of this essay will have read or heard phrases such as ‘the gene for breast cancer’, ‘the gene for autism’ or even ‘the gene for intelligence’ (try typing any of those phrases into a search engine). The cultural idea that went with this slip of meaning – that bodies are made according to a genetic blueprint – placed genes at the centre of mainstream biological thought. The discovery and progressive unravelling of the double helix seemed only to confirm their place there”
https://aeon.co/essays/the-feedback-loop-is-a-better-symbol-of-life-than-the-helix
Aeon
A closed loop
The DNA helix gave 20th-century biology its symbol. But the more we learn, the more life circles back to an older image
Una cosa alla quale non avevo mai pensato. La ricchezza e l’intelligenza-merito non corrispondono. E c’è modo scientifico per esprimere il concetto.
Money quote: “ The conventional answer is that we live in a meritocracy in which people are rewarded for their talent, intelligence, effort, and so on. Over time, many people think, this translates into the wealth distribution that we observe, although a healthy dose of luck can play a role.
But there is a problem with this idea: while wealth distribution follows a power law, the distribution of human skills generally follows a normal distribution that is symmetric about an average value. For example, intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, follows this pattern. Average IQ is 100, but nobody has an IQ of 1,000 or 10,000.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/
Money quote: “ The conventional answer is that we live in a meritocracy in which people are rewarded for their talent, intelligence, effort, and so on. Over time, many people think, this translates into the wealth distribution that we observe, although a healthy dose of luck can play a role.
But there is a problem with this idea: while wealth distribution follows a power law, the distribution of human skills generally follows a normal distribution that is symmetric about an average value. For example, intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, follows this pattern. Average IQ is 100, but nobody has an IQ of 1,000 or 10,000.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/
MIT Technology Review
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
The distribution of wealth follows a well-known pattern sometimes called an 80:20 rule: 80 percent of the wealth is owned by 20 percent of the people. Indeed, a report last year concluded that just eight men had a total wealth equivalent to that of the world’s…
E per concludere la serata. Un bel video realizzato da Spike Jonze per l'HomePod di Apple: quattro minuti di goduria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305ryPvU6A8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305ryPvU6A8