Autumn 2021 - Issue 3

Slower News Quarterly

Another issue of Slower News Quarterly is out. Leaves are starting to fall.

See you in Winter.

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free speech

• It’s not funny anymore.

economy

• Shrinkflation

society

• Parasocial relationships. ¹

education

• Elite over-production. ²

parenting

• The most precious resource is agency. ³

health

• Corona virus is here forever.

beliefs and ethics

• Human-monkey chimera embryos created in lab for first time.

tourism

• Chernobyl’s «stalker» subculture.

• Voluntourism.

retail

• Democratising the right to lazyness. ⁴

urbanism

• Movable housing for scalable cities. ⁵

construction

• The smart home still sucks.

drones, robotics and ai

• Cartels adopt drones armed with explosives. ⁶

• Human and car tracking autonomous drones are now on the market.

blockchain

• Bitcoin as a hyperobject. ⁷

• Crypto leaders are obsessed with life extension.

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1. The disappearing divide between followers and friends.

2. Relevant concept affecting education, work, skills, society and even democracy.

3. Do children today have useful childhoods?

4. On demand deliveries are already a strong trend on retail and work.

5. A bit of futurology. Interesting concept anyway.

6. Drones: the dark side.

7. The quest for use cases continues.