Retail jobs dying in the US

Distressing reading, and coming to the UK real soon now if not already. At the high water mark, there were about 5,000 malls in the United States, and there are now 1,100, at least 400 of which are expected to close in the next few years. This means a lot of jobs....

Lunar

What an intriguing effort to bring photos to life. Always a delight to revisit the moon missions.
Neuralink – Elon’s new thing

Neuralink – Elon’s new thing

(Note The Wait but Why article is a super-long read, so store it up for a travel day.) Summary: Elon Musk works to a simple if audacious formula. Nudge the whole world to be better placed to survive the future by finding a sector with a business model to drive...

The horse has always bolted

Two articles covering different aspects of the fact that policy always has to follow developments in the world and is always rushing to keep up. This often leads to terrible law-making. On privacy,  a postulated axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never...