Clipboard Briefs

1. Netflix: The Monster That’s Eating Hollywood (The Wall Street Journal, original link)
   Maybe Hollywood and the entertainment industry had become used to original Netflix content being focused on scripted dramas and…

1. How Aristotle Created the Computer (The Atlantic)
   In a telling exposition, Chris Dixon traces the evolution of computer science back to the development of mathematical logic. He acknowledges the role of philosophers and…

1. How Intelligent Drones are Shaping the Future of Warfare (Rolling Stone)
   Described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms, autonomous technologies like swarm micro-drones and loitering…

Clipboard Brief: #3

Some interesting things I came across recently —

1. What Putin is Up To (The Atlantic) 
   This article…

“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it” — Francis Bacon

1. Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (The New Yorker)
   Citing…