Issue 40
List of sci-fi crimes that will become possible by 2040. 🕵️ Virus Explorer. 🤢
🔬 WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR THE INTERNET (AND CRIME). PLUS, CANNABIS COCKTAILS.
This week:
Explore viruses at a browser's length; easier font testing. The future of the internet is thirds; paging Dr Algortihm to the ICU.
🕸️ The Cool Side of the Web
List of sci-fi crimes that will become possible by 2040. 🕵️
I love how this website has a "Future of Health" series, and then a list of crimes that will be possible based on these developments.
Side note: It's a great list for anyone looking for short story ideas (I also found a title generator here).
quantumrun.com
Virus Explorer. 🤢
An interactive website with 3D models of viruses that you can rotate and view from different angles.
hhmi.org
What's Hayabusa 2 upto right now?
This website is about as awesome as the concept of mining asteroids with robots.
haya2now.jp
⚒️ Tools and Resources
Times Newer Roman is a font designed to make your essays look longer. 📜
timesnewerroman.com
Pair & Compare your fonts with this handy tool.
A very useful tool for font testing. It helps you avoid all of the ancillary tasks like downloading, installing, copying and pasting, etc etc.
pairandcompare.net
Lyft open sourced their color algorithm. 🎨
They also made a web app which is seriously enjoyable.
colorbox.io
These expanding flex cards are a great way to present a gallery. 💪
codepen.io
TiddlyWiki.
It's like a word processor, a spreadsheet, a vision board, and a website had a child. This is an awesome tool for organizing information, and it works on every, useful, platform.
tiddlywiki.com
Nifty nail-dispensing hammer. 🔨
Ha! It's an actual, physical, tool.
newatlas.com
🕷️ Design & Development Arena
Sir Tim Berners Lee is building a 'new internet' where you control your own data.
Part of a wider fragmentation of the internet? This push for decentralisation is, in some ways, at odds with the predicted two part internet led by China and the US.
fastcompany.com
The next 20 years of Google search.
It will all be about the two Vs: visuals and voice. There's also some interesting stuff around queryless search which is pretty much just sleight of hand to encourage data surrender.
blog.google
🥇 World of WordPress
A thorough review of the 6 biggest email marketing services and tools. 📨
codeinwp.com
5 best WordPress speed test tools. 💨
themeisle.com
🧠 Tech Minded
Military pilots can control three jets at once via a neural implant.
You Fly Boys Freak Me Out
Leaving them with free hands for smokin' and drinkin'.
futurism.com
Injured turtle gets Lego wheelchair at Maryland Zoo. 🐢
Awwwwesome.
nbcnewyork.com
A.Human is a sci-fi fashion show about changing your body instead of your clothes.
I personally could have done without the Rob Zombie-esque presentation of live models buried neck deep in soil.
theverge.com
Researchers 3D print prototype for a 'Bionic Eye'. 👁️
Love the fact that a neuroscientist is pressured into making it by his mother.
neurosciencenews.com
Should coma patients live or die? Dr Algorithm will be consulting on this one. Doctor?
futurism.com
Can neuroscience help you zap your ex outta your brain? 💔
Part of the wider brain zapping narrative. In this episode, a rapper tries EEG-neurofeedback to get over an old relationship.
It's really less unusual and more mainstream than it appears. Some doctors are worried about the widespread us of home kits from Amazon to alleviate depression and enhance creativity.
Does it work? It depends.
Personally, I'll stick with Cana-Cola.
npr.org
🙃 Backwards talking dreams - Fun stuff
Cannabis-laced drinks could be a $600 million market in U.S. by 2022. ☘️🥤
It's A Great Time To Be Alive
Coca-Cola is already making eyes at the cannabis market as a potential source of revenue.
I can't wait to see the ads of slow-moving, beautiful people trying to play volleyball.
newsmax.com
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