The online whiteboard of Kristofer Palmvik
Mr. Brin lived in the Soviet Union until he was nearly 6 years old, and he said the experience of living under a totalitarian system that censored political speech influenced his thinking — and Google’s policy. "It has definitely shaped my views, and some of my company’s views," he said.
What would a big search engine do with a little startup’s check-ins and annotations about locations? Here are some ideas.
LOOK inside the 2011 Ford Fiesta and you will see dashboard controls that have been modeled after the keypad of a cellphone. In some ways, that makes perfect sense: Ford’s market research suggested that young buyers were more attached to their mobile phones than to their means of mobility.
The part of social that’s about stalking people, sharing photos, looking cool — it’s mentally foreign to engineers," the person said. "All those little details are subtle and sometimes missed, especially by technical people who are brought up in a very utilitarian company.
In start-up land, the young barely talk to the old (and vice versa). That makes for a lot of cool apps. But great technology? Not so much.
The way we’re working isn’t working. Even if you’re lucky enough to have a job, you’re probably not very excited to get to the office in the morning, you don’t feel much appreciated while you’re there, you find it difficult to get your most important work accomplished, amid all the distractions, and you don’t believe that what you’re doing makes much of a difference anyway. By the time you get home, you’re pretty much running on empty, and yet still answering emails until you fall asleep.
In light of a growing number of cyber security and data privacy concerns, replacing HTTP with its secure alternative, HTTPS, is becoming increasingly important.
What was once known as the land of cheap rip-offs may now offer a glimpse of the future — and American companies are taking notice.
The ability to concentrate without distraction on hard tasks is becoming increasingly valuable in an increasingly complicated economy. Social media weakens this skill because it’s engineered to be addictive.
Zillow surfing has become a primary form of escapism for those who want to flee not just their homes but the reality of 2020.
"Every classification system in machine learning contains a worldview. Every single one." And this one, she said, suggests that "the standard human" — one who may be interested in using fashion and style as a form of self-expression — is not automatically recognized as possibly being a disabled human.
So after you retire, travel, write a poem, try to start your own business, stay out a little too late, devote time to something that doesn’t have a clear end goal — in short, do everything you couldn’t do when you were training.
Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels as if you’re muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield. And it might be the dominant emotion of 2021.