Summer 2021 - Issue 2

Slower News - Quarterly

Summer finally arrived.

Time for another issue of Slower News Quarterly. Enjoy.

geopolitics

• The rise of hacking armies.¹

• China lands a rover on Mars.

• Tech companies are becoming «independent nations».²

democracy

• Democracy under siege.³

health

• Effective malaria vaccine discovered.

• Novel HIV vaccine in human trial.

media

• Media as food.⁴

culture

• The most used languages on the internet.⁵

• Addiction to outrage.⁶

beliefs & ethics

• Is Sharing Economy a faith?⁷

business

• Amazon uses crowdfunding to minimize risk.⁸

• Tesla makes more money trading bitcoin than selling cars.

farming

• The promise and perils of insect farming.

transports

• SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon.

tools

• Excel never dies.⁹

blockchain

• NFTs are the new conceptual art.¹⁰

• Crypto compared with fiat currencies.

Deprecated article: Facebook will make the money now.¹¹

Easter egg: Slower News - Timeless. Still a work-in-progress.

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See you in Autumn.

1. Armies are slowly morphing.

2. Broader view on "Facebook is becoming na «independent nation».

3. Strong trend: 15 years of decline in a row.

4. An old problem - still - without solution.

5. Geopolitics, free speech and cultural marker.

6. Outrage became trendy.

7. Is «sharing economy» a modern faith? It seems to be based on a dogma.

8. "Crowdfunding platforms were originally intended to let broke creators attract funding. As they've grown, the model has been hijacked by already-established businesses and even rich corporations simply seeking to minimize their risk through pre-orders." -- Rain Noe

9. Like the cats, Excel has nine lives - or seven in some countries.

10. The quest for an usecase for Blockchain continues.

11. Facebook's cryptocurrency was a fiasco.