Weekly Filet #91: And Now For Something Completely Different. And more.
This week's top recommendation
The biggest show in politics is over, the billions are spent, little has changed. Time to refocus. Let's reframe our attention to all the other equally and more important developments worldwide. That's exactly what this article from Foreign Policy is about. While the article is clearly directed at American readers, let's not fool ourselves: We, too, have been overly focused on the US of A over the past few months.
→ What You Missed While You Were Refreshing Drudge and FiveThirtyEight (Foreign Policy)
Further recommendations
How long until your doctor will prescribe you two daily superorgasms with a sexbot?
→ Sexbots Will Give Us Longevity Orgasms (Transhumanity)
A very comprehensive dossier on the Chinese (s)election.
→ China Decides (Foreign Policy)
From Commander-in-Chief to Assasin-in-Chief. What the future of warfare in space and cyberspace looks like.
→ Super Weapons and Global Dominion (TomDispatch)
One last thing on the US elections: The best comment I've read about it. True way beyond the borders of the USA.
→ Barack Obama And The Death Of Normal (David Simon)