Foundry’s WTF (26-Aug-2017)

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.
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