Weekly Filet #74: Why The Future Didn't Happen. And more.
No animals were harmed in producing this: Weekly Filet #74. Read it here or over at Das Magazin.
This week's top recommendation
In a very long, yet brilliant essay, David Graeber explores why the future that is now just doesn't live up to the expectations people had for it back in the sixties and seventies. This anthropologist's view on technological research and development of the past decades brings to light some intriguing explanations (innovation was pushed in the wrong fields, motivation faded after the Cold War, it's bureaucracy's fault, it's capitalism's fault...). Reading the article will take you an hour. Thinking about it will take longer. That's proof it's worth the time.
→ Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit (The Baffler)
Further recommendations
Meet the meat fakers. Their plan is not make killing animals (almost) obsolete by producing in vitro meat that is indistinguishable from the real deal.
→ Fake meat: is science fiction on the verge of becoming fact? (The Guardian)
Very interesting report about how pushing the limits of brain science helped Canadian marathon runners to break their limits.
→ The Race Against Time (The Walrus)
A tool to improve you language skills while surfing the web. Depending on how proficient you already are, fewer or more words from the websites you visit are shown in the language you chose to learn.
→ Language Immersion for Chrome
Keep this Swiss band on your radar.
→ The Hoanhiêu (Bandcamp)
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