Weekly Filet #76: Unforeseen Disruptions. And more.
You got 99 emails, but like this ain't none. Weekly Filet #76 is ready for you. Read it here or over at Das Magazin.
This week's top recommendation
The Public Domain Review has a series of wonderful illustrations from around 1900, imagining the then future year 2000. As you will see, people hoped for aerial firemen, underwater fish-riding races and whale buses. While the illustrations are fun to look at, you can't help but admit that most of them are not too far off on a conceptual level. What can be learnt from that: When we try to imagine the future, we tend to extrapolate current technology and underestimate major disruptions. But then again, heck, they even saw batman coming, fighting his kins in cars.
→ France in the Year 2000 (The Public Domain Review)
→ See also: Weekly Filet #74: Why The Future Didn't Happen
Further recommendations
After reading this book review, this is a sure buy. I mean, who doesn't want to know, «Why is there something rather than nothing?».
→ Book Review: Why Does the World Exist? (Vulture)
Of course, we never fall for those cheap tricks shops use to make us buy their stuff. Do we?
→ The 11 Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math (The Atlantic)
Turn your instagram photos into magnets. Nice little gift (say, to yourself).
→ Instagram moments as magnets (Picpack)
Insomnia, more than not being able to sleep, is about being afraid of just that. Interesting read.
→ On Insomnia (This Recording)
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