Foundry’s WTF (26-Aug-2017)

Arnaud Sahuguet
Aug 28, 2017 · 3 min read
The Foundry @ Cornell Tech

The Foundry’s Weekly Technology Fix (WTF) is a curated list of articles/posts/etc. we found interesting. The Foundry @ Cornell Tech transforms research and ideas into products.

Send your suggestions to wtf-digest@cornelltech.io .

Department of 🎮 💉 (Digital Addictions)

Millenials; digital money; and BehaveTech (in French, sorry).

Department of 💡🏙 (Smarter Cities)

Natural Language Processing to understand service disruptions; new book about Data & The City; and hovering busses.

Department of 🤑 🔌 (Shameless Plugs)

TED talk by CathyO about big data; engineering creativity; and postdoc opportunities at Cornell Tech re privacy research.

Department of 🌈🎆(Silver Linings)

3D printing meets sign language; kids inventions; and photography tricks.

Department of 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧 🗳 (US-FR-UK Elections)

Life without foreign food; and gerrymandering.

Department of 🎬 📖 (worthy quotes)


“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend … if you have one.”
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)

“Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one.”
— Churchill’s response”


British officer: “You French fight for money, while we British fight for honor.”

Robert Surcouf: “Sir, a man fights for what he lacks the most.”


« What the great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between private and public life. » — Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny.


Send your suggestions to wtf-digest@cornelltech.io .

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Arnaud Sahuguet

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@sahuguet, Director of The Foundry @ Cornell Tech, previous life includes NYU GovLab, Google, Bell Labs, UPenn, X91.

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Written by and for pioneers radically committed to the digital age.

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