The Future Is Always Here

Saturday, December 10, 2016

​The future's a slippery fish. We spend so much time trying to second-guess it and pin it down before it bites us that it's typically here before we're ready. But sometimes we're just not looking in the right place.

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DIGG + BBC FUTURE The Future Is Always Here digg.com ​The future's a slippery fish. We spend so much time trying to second-guess it and pin it down before it bites us that it's typically here before we're ready. But sometimes we're just not looking in the right place. PEOPLE SHIVER ME TIMBERS! The First Pirate Politician in Power bbc.com Birgitta Jonsdottir is leader of Iceland's Pirate Party, which has just been asked to form a government. BBC Future Now met her to see what the activist-turned-politician has planned IT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE How We Became More Than 7 Billion digg.com Humanity's population explosion, visualized. EAT YOU HEART OUT, OCULUS The Man Who Invented VR Goggles 50 Years Too Soon spectrum.ieee.org Hugo Gernsback believed millions yearned for his 3D TV eyeglasses. SHIRTS WE DIGG | SPONSORED Your New Favorite Polo Is Just $29 linksoul.com We're all for using Dad's hand-me-down clubs, but his out dated polos? Pass. Luckily, Linksoul is breathing new life into golf apparel. Their signature polo is seriously comfortable and currently $29. Just in time for the holidays. PLACES PRECIOUS THINGS The Gold Mine At The End Of The World bbc.com Photographer Elena Chernyshova spent 10 days at the Kupol gold mine in northeast Russia to see the extremes workers endure to feed our demand for precious metals SHHHHH Can America's Quietest Town Be Saved? bbc.com There's a town in West Virginia where there are tight restrictions on mobile signal, wifi and other parts of what most of us know as simply: modern life. It means Green Bank is a place unlike anywhere else in the world. But that could be set to change THE STUFF THAT MATTERS Six Maps That Reveal America's Vast Infrastructure washingtonpost.com A look at the United States's bridges, electrical grid, pipelines, railroads, airports and waterways THINGS NETWORK FAILURE The Forgotten Soviet Internet bbc.com Long before the World Wide Web, the Soviets tried to save the USSR with a computer network. Why did their project never make it? TIMELY QUESTION ALERT What Is Information? digg.com Information is on our phones and in our DNA sequence, but what is it exactly? Is it something subjective or a real quantity? 21ST CENTURY WITCHHUNTS Why Schadenfreude Goes Viral lrb.co.uk The cold, cruel mind of the internet troll is the toxic product of human nature and our increasingly cynical culture. The future is already here, but you still have the rest of the weekend ahead of you. Please enjoy it! View the Edition at Digg.com »

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