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Five Interesting Things: Today’s Scan Hits

Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. Slate suggests that a combination of Uber-like car services and autonomous electric vehicles could drastically change cities. Chinese researchers, using data from the Twitter-like social network Weibo, found that anger spreads more readily through social networks than joy, sadness, or disgust. In the World…

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Five Interesting Things: Today’s Scan Hits

Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. More than 200 US colleges are offering their students the opportunity to take an SAT-style test after graduation, to demonstrate their acquired thinking and communication skills to potential employers. Separating the the pricey educational credential from the cheap employment credential may…

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Five Interesting Things: Today’s Scan Hits

Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. Wired’s Clive Thompson calls for supplementing the Maker movement with a Fixer movement that would promote the skills needed to fix “broken” goods and pressure manufacturers to improve the repairability of their products. Bank analysts are warning that China may be reaching a “Minsky…

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Five Interesting Things: Today’s Scan Hits

Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. Using “big data” to evaluate the productivity of individual scientists may have unintended consequences. A recent editorial in Science argues that any automated scoring of an individual’s publication output discourages “risky and potentially groundbreaking work” and tends to steer scientists towards highly populated fields…

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