Audi’s next-generation showroom • Required Reading Issue #42
Our collection of 10 internet items worth your attention
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Audi’s next-generation showrooms are powered by HTC’s Vive and Oculus Rift.
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10 life lessons to help you excel in your 30s. (Perfect timing because I recently turned 32. Again.)
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Werner Herzog, the remarkable filmmaker who; is premiering a new film at Sundance about the internet called Lo and Behold, once walked from Munich to Paris, ate his own shoe, rescued Joaquin Phoenix from a car crash, and knows how to hypnotize a chicken… talks about virtual reality(and of course, totally gets it).
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Kevin Kelly talks with Tim Ferriss about artificial intelligence and designer babies.
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Paulette Perhach wrote a spectacular PSA about financial self-defense: A Story of a Fuck Off Fund.
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Meet the recurrent neural network writing new Friends scripts.
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Looking for a good read? Here are five of my favorite books of 2015:
- The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
- Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
- Undermajordomo Minor: A Novel by Patrick deWitt (who lives in Portland!)
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
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Is this the first Instagram masterpiece? Amalia Ulman’s false selfies are coming to the Tate Modern.
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This IS maddening: Product companies were told to exclude Rey from Star Wars related merchandise.
And finally…
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A brick in a washing machine on a trampoline.
“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.”
— David Lynch
