Imaginary Papers, Issue 17

mailchi.mp/asu.edu/imaginarypapers17-feb2024?e=86de532334

How Americans’ confidence in technology firms has dropped: evidence from the second wave of the American Institutional Confidence poll

www.brookings.edu/articles/how-americans-confidence-in-technology-firms-has-dropped-evidence-from-the-second-wave-of-the-american-institutional-confidence-poll/

The Americans Who Need Chaos

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/need-for-chaos-politicsl-science-concept/677536/

quick.study/soloculture-1

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions - Apex Magazine

apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/necessary-and-sufficient-conditions/

At least five interesting things to start your week (#28)

www.noahpinion.blog/p/at-least-five-interesting-things-7fa?utm_source=substack

www.nfx.com/post/ai-like-water

The Era of Abstraction & New Creative Tensions

www.implications.com/p/the-era-of-abstraction-and-new-creative?publication_id=1256656&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&isFreemail=true

The future of building startups

gregisenberg.ck.page/posts/the-future-of-building-startups?token=d0u6r2k9pqb2azhk4xx64otmvm2q44&subscriber_code=747680

Requests for Startups | Y Combinator

www.ycombinator.com/rfs

The Year(s) Ahead in Media - Virtualization

dougshapiro.substack.com/p/the-years-ahead-in-media-part-4?publication_id=535846&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=zc5g3

The Year(s) Ahead in Media - Concentration

dougshapiro.substack.com/p/the-years-ahead-in-media-part-3?publication_id=535846&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&isFreemail=true

The Year(s) Ahead in Media - Concentration

dougshapiro.substack.com/p/the-years-ahead-in-media-part-3?publication_id=535846&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=zc5g3

Future of media monetisation

www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/telecommunications/future-of-media-content-monetization.html

The Year(s) Ahead in Media - Disintermediation

dougshapiro.substack.com/p/the-years-ahead-in-media-part-2

The Year(s) Ahead in Media - Fragmentation

dougshapiro.substack.com/p/the-years-ahead-in-media-part-1?publication_id=535846&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=zc5g3

How to Attract, Develop, and Retain AI Talent

www.bcg.com/publications/2023/how-to-attract-develop-retain-ai-talent

Answer.AI - Lessons from history’s greatest R&D labs

www.answer.ai/posts/2024-01-26-freaktakes-lessons.html?utm_source=www.homescreen.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=chip-it

Bonus: More details on how Bell Labs operated

www.freaktakes.com/p/bonus-more-details-on-how-bell-labs

How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?

www.freaktakes.com/p/how-did-places-like-bell-labs-know

An Alternative Approach to Deep Tech VC

www.freaktakes.com/p/an-alternative-approach-to-deep-tech?utm_medium=email

Engaging the Masses: How Entertainment is Taking Web3 Mainstream

www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/06/22/engaging-the-masses-how-entertainment-is-taking-web3-mainstream/

The company teaching influencers how to get rich without going viral

restofworld.org/2023/hotmart-get-rich-without-going-viral/

Zoomerang: Short-Form AI Video Platform Is A Creative Innovation

www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2023/06/25/zoomerang-short-form-ai-video-platform-is-a-creative-innovation/?sh=13cdafc51a23

You Are Not Late to Artificial Intelligence

thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com/p/you-are-not-late-to-artificial-intelligence?utm_source=substack&publication_id=883883&post_id=141234185&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=24lim

Sam Altman's Next Big Thing, a new EV startup from the founder of Lordstown Motors, and 401Ks hit the motherlode

preview.mailerlite.com/j4u8b8v7p4/2396352940576086964/h3h6/

In defense of science fiction

www.noahpinion.blog/p/in-defense-of-science-fiction?utm_source=substack&publication_id=35345&post_id=140166475&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=24lim

What the data says about Americans’ views of artificial intelligence

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/21/what-the-data-says-about-americans-views-of-artificial-intelligence/

Teens, Social Media and Technology 2023

www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/12/11/teens-social-media-and-technology-2023/

(23) "OK, Doomer." A Discussion With Techno-Optimists ⎸#InnoMinds S2EP11 (Part 1) - YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcA5gala51g

The AI Spectrum for Founders

www.nfx.com/post/ai-perspective-2023?utm_campaign=NFX%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=284692270&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9xk8mb4vu4T_xdfV3z4ziulQcfteWYPrDuL9IZMBbYw_IDvSdh6cuBHp83xYVfwtbdYkodBHBa7eQyeU2hBR6PmLCmxA&utm_content=284692270&utm_source=hs_email

Generative AI: A Creative New World

www.sequoiacap.com/article/generative-ai-a-creative-new-world/

Power Laws in Culture

dougshapiro.substack.com/p/power-laws-in-culture?nthPub=171

My sci-fi novel recommendations

www.noahpinion.blog/p/my-sci-fi-novel-recommendations-888?utm_source=substack&publication_id=35345&post_id=140049252&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=24lim

Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real

www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/?mc_cid=6bbaf30f32&mc_eid=c2bd484fe6

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me

blog.samaltman.com/what-i-wish-someone-had-told-me

Brain scans reveal that lonely people process the world in unique ways

dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/brain-scans-lonely-people-process-unique/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Keep%20Reading%20%26gt%3B%26gt%3B&utm_campaign=Year%20End%20Roundup%202023

Fighting superbugs: Scientists bring molecules back from the dead | CNN

www.cnn.com/2023/12/15/health/superbugs-antibiotics-neanderthal-woolly-mammoth-scn/index.html?utm_source=www.homescreen.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=ai-on-your-face

Joyspan, Emotional AI Bumpers, Persona Designers, & More Wild Concepts Bound to Become Commonplace Plus Where High-Tech Entertainment Brings Us

www.implications.com/p/joyspan-emotional-ai-bumpers-persona?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1256656&post_id=139751923&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=zc5g3

"People first" - making tech work for you

sublimeinternet.substack.com/p/people-first-making-tech-work-for?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1191589&post_id=139207740&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=24lim

AI Models Are Tragic Slaves of Their Sublime Predictive Accuracy

thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com/p/ai-models-are-tragic-slaves-of-their?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=883883&post_id=139460754&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=24lim&utm_medium=email

Big Ideas in Tech for 2024

a16z.com/big-ideas-in-tech-2024/

The Old is Dying

sublimeinternet.substack.com/p/the-old-is-dying?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1191589&post_id=139199414&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=zc5g3

☞ The Subtle Magic of Catalyzing Change

arbesman.substack.com/p/the-subtle-magic-of-catalyzing-change?utm_source=substack&publication_id=3297&post_id=138422081&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=24lim

How to Survive as a Human Creator in the AI Era

thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-as-a-human-creator?utm_source=substack&publication_id=883883&post_id=139600486&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=24lim

Infineon and Archetype to Develop AI Sensor Chipsets

www.eejournal.com/article/infineon-and-archetype-to-develop-ai-sensor-chipsets/

Stripe: Thinking Like a Civilization

thegeneralist.substack.com/p/stripe-thinking-like-a-civilization

Soft Power in Tech

thegeneralist.substack.com/p/soft-power-in-tech?utm_source=substack&publication_id=15764&post_id=139589270&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=zc5g3

Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond

www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/11/tech-predictions-for-2024-and-beyond.html

My techno-optimism

vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html?utm_source=www.homescreen.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=board-of-the-rings

OpenAI & Grand Strategy

www.notboring.co/p/openai-and-grand-strategy?utm_source=substack&publication_id=10025&post_id=139059294&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=24lim