The Far Future, Zork, and Computer-Generated Musicals: Lux Recommends #95

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Aug 25, 2017 · 3 min read

By Sam Arbesman, PhD

Welcome to Lux Recommends #95, the newest edition of what we at Lux are reading and thinking about (and want to receive this by email? Sign up here).

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Infographic of the fascinating timeline of the far future: “Timeline of the far future is one of my favorite pages on Wikipedia. It details what might happen to humanity, human artifacts, the Earth, the solar system, and the Universe from 10,000 years from now until long past the heat death of the Universe. Information is Beautiful has made a lovely infographic of the timeline.” — Sam

The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice: “Tech companies are rethinking products for the developing world, creating new winners and losers” — Adam K

The Enduring Legacy of Zork: “The innovative text-adventure game still influences technologists 40 years after its creation.” — Sam

Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life: The humanity of tech and the tech of humanity: Humanscale returns. — Josh

You Can Actually Do Something Good With Those Eclipse Glasses: “Astronomers Without Borders has offered to take them off your hands so that children will be able to use them in future eclipses. The organization says it will soon announce a program dedicated to redistributing glasses to schools in Asia and South America, where there will be solar eclipses in 2019.” — Sam

World’s first computer-generated musical to debut in London: “Beyond the Fence, the story of a family at Greenham Common, will incorporate machine-generated plot and music” — Bilal

What you need to know about the Middle East startup spaceShahin

Hot Spot for Tech Outsourcing: The United States Shahin

Books

Tomorrow’s Kin by Nancy Kress: The first in a trilogy, this is a thought-provoking take on First Contact, if the aliens were fellow humans separated by millennia. Lots of interesting ideas and themes here, and that I’m excited to see explored even more in the next two books. — Sam

Movies

The Hitman’s Bodyguard: Hysterical. — Adam G

Podcasts

Kumail Nanjiani & Emily Gordon / Jim Florentine from WTF with Marc MaronAdam G

500th Episode Special from The Moth Adam G

Featuring the Lux Portfolio

Here’s what clinical trial utopia may look like: “Why then, is it so darn hard to recruit for many trials?It’s a complex problem, which not surprisingly has many in the industry looking for a technology-based solution.” Science 37 — Adam G

Solar Eclipse!

Some highlights from the solar eclipse: The view of the total eclipse from the path of totality while skydiving and Flying through a Solar Eclipse. — Adam K See also some photos here and here and here. — Adam K, Bilal, and Sam

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