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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Money quote: “Despite chances to reboot – many assumed synthesizers will undo the damage, just like we hoped to finally ditch QWERTY when an entire generation sat down to first computers – we still use the same piano keyboard. Mirroring typing, the only room for innovation is size, materials, and software. The layout might as well have been cast in stone”

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/issues/the-italian-senate-survival-manual-151502
Sulla totalità del genio di Charles Sanders Peirce

Money quote: “Who is the most original and the most versatile intellect that the Americas have so far produced? The answer ‘Charles S Peirce’ is uncontested, because any second would be so far behind as not to be worth nominating. Mathematician, astronomer, chemist, geodesist, surveyor, cartographer, metrologist, spectroscopist, engineer, inventor; psychologist, philologist, lexicographer, historian of science, mathematical economist, lifelong student of medicine; book reviewer, dramatist, actor, short-story writer; phenomenologist, semiotician, logician, rhetorician [and] metaphysician … He was, for a few examples, … the first metrologist to use a wave-length of light as a unit of measure, the inventor of the quincuncial projection of the sphere, the first known conceiver of the design and theory of an electric switching-circuit computer, and the founder of ‘the economy of research’. He is the only system-building philosopher in the Americas who has been both competent and productive in logic, in mathematics, and in a wide range of sciences. If he has had any equals in that respect in the entire history of philosophy, they do not number more than two.”

https://aeon.co/essays/charles-sanders-peirce-was-americas-greatest-thinker
Se la vostra cosa è la musica elettronica, avete trovato il vostro divertimento da browser. Un ripasso dei tempi che furono: Amiga

https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=demomods%2FStardustMemories.mod
È domenica, e come succede da 41 settimane a questa parte, è uscita la newsletter di questo canale: Mostly Weekly

https://tinyletter.com/MostlyIWrite
Una ricerca su cosa fa la generazione Z con Tinder che è anche una campagna di marketing con una forma di posizionamento lucido e poco meno che geniale

Money quote: "In pratica, Tinder ha scoperto il posizionamento giusto per non farci uscire dall’app—perché se trovi il partner della tua vita il gioco di swipe almeno per un po’ finisce, giusto?—e nel frattempo ha tirato fuori un report che offre un confronto generazionale piuttosto interessante"

https://www.vice.com/it/article/vb55nb/report-2019-tinder-italia
Così, senza tanti giri di parole, salta fuori una "conseguenza inattesa e non voluta" della telefonia mobile: il telefono cellulare ha ucciso il telefono fisso e con esso la centralità sociale e in parte affettiva della casa.

Money quote: ""Home is where you could be reached, and where you needed to go to pick up your messages.' With smartphones, Fernandez says, 'we have gained mobility and privacy. But the value of the home has been diminished, as has its capacity to guide and monitor family behavior and perhaps bind families more closely together.'" "

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/12/families-landline-shared-phone/603487
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La storia di 70 anni di "Topolino" raccontata da – e attraverso – i suoi 7 direttori. Ovvero uno degli articoli più importanti che abbiamo preparato per voi in questo 2019 👉 https://bit.ly/2EsE4s0.
La trasformazione delle città passa dall'eliminazione delle automobili private. Mi ricordo quando da ragazzo ho visto le lotte per creare le prime ZTL a Firenze: sembra passato un secolo.

Money quote: "Today, we see a growing movement in cities throughout the world to stem the usage of cars and close streets to unmitigated traffic. The two most prominent examples in the U.S. are New York City, with the closing of 14th Street, and San Francisco, which will soon close Market Street to cars."

https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/12/car-free-streets-plans-sf-market-street-new-york-europe-us/603391/