Science, Technology, Society

Phys.org: Surrey builds AI to find anti-ageing chemical compounds. https://phys.org/news/2021-07-surrey-ai-anti-ageing-chemical-compounds.html

The New York Times: A Young Naturalist Inspires With Joy, Not Doom. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/books/dara-mcanulty-diary-of-a-young-naturalist.html

Vox.com: Why food and housing assistance is essential for improving America’s health. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22567034/us-health-care-trends-social-determinants-of-health

Gizmodo: In 2030, You Won’t Own Any Gadgets. https://gizmodo.com/in-2030-you-wont-own-any-gadgets-1847176540

Advocates say having computer programs decide how much help vulnerable people can get is often arbitrary – and in some cases downright cruel

Source: What happened when a ‘wildly irrational’ algorithm made crucial healthcare decisions | US news | The Guardian

 

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

Source: The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination – The Atlantic

The New York Times: Covid Proved the C.D.C. Is Broken. Can It Be Fixed?. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/magazine/cdc-covid-response.html

The Wall Street Journal: Amazon and Walmart Have an Rx for Healthcare. The Cure Won’t Be Easy.. https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-and-walmart-have-an-rx-for-healthcare-the-cure-wont-be-easy-11622194240?mod=flipboard

 

From Work-from-Home Facilitator to Fitness Commitment Counsellor and Algorithm Bias Auditor to Cyber Calamity Forecaster, the future of jobs is already upon us.

Source: ‘Jobs of the now’: The top 10 jobs of the future have arrived early | World Economic Forum

The New York Times: If You Plan to Visit Aging Parents, Bring a To-Do List. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/well/visit-aging-parents.html

 

 

Having some people work from home while their teammates are in the office runs counter to much of what makes organizations tick.

Source: The hybrid workplace probably won’t last – The Boston Globe