Elon Musk Wants To Implant Computers Inside People’s Brains

“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”

 ~Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

— Hubert Selby, Jr., born in 1928

“You get to a breakthrough like the original iPhone one step at a time. . . ” ~ John Gruber Background: 110010 binary years ago, or 50 years, the Sony TC-50 cassette player and recorder accompanied the Apollo 11 crew to the Moon and back. (Here’s what they listened to.) Ten years later, the company came out with the Walkman, the first portable cassette player that struck a chord with consumers. In this video, Mat of Techmoan shows us the TC-50 and shows how similar it is to the later Walkman.

Note this video via Daring Fireball, where John Gruber remarked on the iterative nature of design: “You get to a breakthrough like the original iPhone one step at a time.”

In An On-Demand World, Movie Marketers Are Shortening Their Campaigns

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Blockbusters as recent as Suicide Squad and Pets 2 had 18 months to two-year marketing campaigns, but now? People don’t want to wait that long, and they actually get annoyed. Now, four to five months is all we can take. – The New York Times

Prospect Magazine’s List Of The World’s 50 Top Thinkers

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“The urge to rank and measure might itself seem anti-intellectual—more Top Trumps than top scholarship. But the aim is not to chase a chimera still less to deliver the results of some supposedly objective IQ test. Rather it is simply to honour the minds engaging most fruitfully with the questions of the moment.” –Prospect

Musk Wants To Implant Computers Inside People’s Brains

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The company is developing a device to implant inside the brain that supposedly will allow people to control computers and other devices with their minds. At the announcement, Musk said the company is on track to begin testing the implants in human patients as soon as next year. – The Atlantic

CHARGING YOUR LAPTOP AT MCDONALD’S IS ONE THING: Florida Man Parks His Tesla Overnight on a Stranger’s Lawn to Steal Electricity: The owner of the Tesla Model 3 used an extension cord to plug in to a complete stranger’s outlet for 12 hours. “Driving an electric car can sometimes make a calm person slide into bouts of extreme desperation. That may be the kindest way to describe why a Florida man ditched his Tesla on another person’s lawn, stole electricity from that house, and walked off to party with friends in the middle of the night. . . . Please do not be this pathetic while driving an EV.”

Culture is the new workplace currency
 As widespread digital transformation shifts the world of work, culture is emerging as a critical differentiator, according to Carolyn Byer, head of HR at Microsoft Canada.
 Culture is key to attracting, retaining and recruiting world-class talent, and is becoming a huge differentiator as people look to work in places where their values align to the organization. Employees’ expectations of their employers has gone up significantly in this regard.
 From an HR perspective, organizations need to work to build a culture across this diverse workplace and start focusing on collaboration tools. 

Source: HR reporter, Culture is the new workplace currency: Hr executive,