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Summer 2021 - Issue 2

Slower News - Quarterly

E. Ferreira
Jun 21, 2021
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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.

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