Jeffrey Goldberg – Bloomberg Businessweek
For many Americans, the effects of climate change seem amorphous and distant . For the populations of tiny island nations like Kiribati, the threat is real and near – and any impacts would be irreversible. Which has led its leader, Anote Tong, to declare that the developed countries are murdering his country.
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Dana Milbank – Washington Post Magazine
Over 200 years after Thomas Jefferson failed to establish a good grape harvest on his Virginia estate, a handful of winemakers in Virginia are now producing wines that compete with vintners from California and Europe. Thanks in large part to a combination of technological advances and deep pockets (including Donald Trump), vineyards have been transformed from places where wines once tasted like “detergent.”
Don Peck – The Atlantic
Big Data and analytics have transformed baseball, political campaigns and journalism. Now, the practice of “people analytics,” is threating to turn HR departments into corporate versions of “Moneyball.”
Auto Correct: Has the Self-Driving Car at Last Arrived?
Burkhard Bilger – The New Yorker
To say that the possibilities of a driverless car have both excited and struck fear in the hearts of Americans is an understatement. To some, this would dramatically alter transportation as we know it. For others, it would take the joy of driving away and hand it over to robots that can be hacked and controlled. What might really matter most, however, is that the self-driving car might save lives.
A Reason to Root for Dubai on the Hudson
Hugo Lindgren – New York Times Magazine
Cities have undergone dramatic transformations in the past decades. And for every excited gentrifier, there is a horrified, indignant NIMBY. In Greenwich Village, once ground zero for all things edgy and “real,” some think it may be time to move on, because, as the author asks, “Who wants to live in a museum?"
